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| There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Theology is never any help it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| A motion to adjourn is always in order. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. |
John Wesley |
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| There is no such thing as a solitary Christian. |
John Wesley |
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| Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. |
John Wesley |
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| C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
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| If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| I am a part of all that I have met. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| The greater man the greater courtesy. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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| The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. |
Richard Harding Davis |
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| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. |
Cyril Connolly |
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| And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. |
Isaiah |
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| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity... |
Vaclav Havel |
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| Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. |
Vaclav Havel |
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| I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet' |
Mike Godwin |
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| The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. |
A. R. Orage |
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| Ed Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that. |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was. |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights. |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| Frank Wilma, I promise you whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat. |
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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| John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Charlie And I'd really like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd start kissing on the bed, and I don't wanna rush into spending the night together. Harriet I'd love to spend the night together. Charlie I have no problem with that |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love. |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow. |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground. |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size. |
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform. |
George Steiner |
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| Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past. |
George Steiner |
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| It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. |
George Steiner |
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| A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. |
George Steiner |
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| The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. |
Peter De Vries |
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| It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. |
Peter De Vries |
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| I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. |
Peter De Vries |
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| The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. |
Peter De Vries |
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| Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
Peter De Vries |
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| My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. |
Peter De Vries |
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| Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
Peter De Vries |
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| George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. |
Blow |
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| Fred Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on. |
Blow |
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| George The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance. |
Blow |
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| George May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. Fred And may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. |
Blow |
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| George It was the greatest feeling I ever had. Followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had. |
Blow |
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| If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. |
Chinese Proverb |
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| If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. |
Chinese Proverb |
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