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November 2005

Random musings to get you through the day

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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster."
~ Isaac Asimov

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
~ Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

"Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."
~ Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

"Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), (last words)

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."
~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs."
~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

"A classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
~ Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
~ Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
~ Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)

"A martyr’s disciples suffer more than the martyr."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
~ Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)



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