If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Abraham Lincoln The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford Islands Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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- Ian L. Fleming You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Islands
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
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-- Ken Dodd Islands The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
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-- Thomas Szasz Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Islands
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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- Oscar Wilde Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Islands
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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-- Arnold Bennett Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
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-- Ray Bandy Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Islands
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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- Aristotle Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Islands An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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questions.
-- Woody Allen Islands
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Islands Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Islands
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Hell is other people.
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-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Islands
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Islands The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Islands
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Islands "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
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