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- Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. - Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), Waiting for Godot (1955)
- A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
- Stanley Baldwin (1867 - 1947)
- What's up, Doc?
- Tex Avery (1908 - 1980), Bugs Bunny's catch phrase
- A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
- One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong (1930 - ), Upon landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969
- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981), Newsweek, July 2, 1956
- When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks (1944)
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
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