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- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
- I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
- Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
- William Safire (1929 - )
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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