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- I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
- Claire Sargent, on women candidates, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
- God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (attributed)
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. - Edwin Teale
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
- There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
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