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- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
- But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
- Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W.C. Fields
- Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G.K. Chesterton
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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