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- This is quite a three-pipe problem.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
- Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
- Krishnamurti
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
- Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
- Marlo Thomas
- Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000)
- Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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