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| Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The Savage was silent for a little. "All the same," he insisted obstinately, "Othello's good, Othello's better than those feelies." |
| Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. |
| God the biggest mac daddy of them all Fiat lux. |
| Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf Well, get up, so I told myself, lather yourself, scrape your chin till it bleeds, dress and show an amiable disposition towards your fellow–men. |
| Nick Hornby on Peter Framption, High Fidelity Show Me the Way'! That perm! That stupid bag thing he used to blow into, which made his guitar sound like Donald Duck! |
| Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People We began to realize that if we wanted to change our situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. |
| Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. |
| Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) Victory goes to the player who makes the next–to–last mistake. |
| Milton Friedman I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. |
| Tomi Kilgore NEW YORK (CBS.MW) — U.S. stocks were set to take off at the open Thursday after government data showed that the economy grew at the fastest rate in more than 19 years in the third quarter and jobless claims continued to decline. |
| Mark Twain If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. |
| William F. Buckley I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. |
| Homer Simpson You'll choke on your lie! |
| Andy Patterson If it doesn't have chickory, it's not worth my time. |
| Sideshow Bob No, that's German for, 'The Bart, the.' |
| Alan Watts You don't dance to get to the other side of the floor. |
| Paul Erdos A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. |
| Larry Wall, <9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Because . doesn't match \n. [\0–\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing. :–) |
| They Might Be Giants I said if I was smart that I would Save up for a piece of string And a rock to wind the string around |
| George Orwell, Animal Farm Four legs good, two legs bad! |
| François Mauriac 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. |
| Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Who is John Galt? |