Quotes

I love quotes. Everyone has pages of quotes. I thought I'd add one, too, but I'm not going to make it that long. Perhaps I'll add links to other pages of quotes at some point in the future.

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"Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word processor?"

"It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?"

- MacNelley, "Shoe"

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"Scary Gary, you wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing 'subtle plans are here again'."

-Edmund BlackAdder

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"Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for valuable prizes!"

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

- John Cage

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

- George Bernard Shaw

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"To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish."

- Benjamin Franklin

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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable."

- H. L. Mencken

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"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

- Former Vice President Dan Quayle

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"But this *long run* is a misleading guide to current affairs. *In the long run,* we are all dead."

- Keynes

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(Regarding criticism of the practice of ending sentences with prepositions)
"That is the sort of English up with which I will not put."

- Winston Churchill

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"Fear is the path of the Dark Side.
Fear leads to Anger;
Anger leads to Hate;
Hate leads to Suffering..."

- Yoda

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"If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin."

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"Gene police! Out of the pool!"

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"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."

- Joseph Stalin

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Brain: Do you know what today is?
Pinky: Today we spackle the cracks in my brain with Spam?
Brain: What a waste of good Spam.

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"Rock is dead!!! Long live paper and scissors!"

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"'He looks like Alice Cooper doing 'Rosemary's Baby.'"

- Mr. Blackwell's Top 10 Worst Dressed List, about Marilyn Manson

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"Satanism isn't an independent religion. It is Christianity Dark Bitter Ale."

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"Field of Wet Dreams: If you build it, you will come."

- Buck Naked

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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them, the starry heaven above me, and the moral law within me."

- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

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"Logic is a tweeting bird in a green meadow."

- Mr. Spock

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"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man."

Chief Seattle (1854)

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"It's a great idea."

- Gandhi, on western civilization

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"Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big."

- Umberto Eco

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Let's try some links to quote-oriented sites now:

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Quotes