Quotes
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Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. Cicero
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
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When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right. Ed Finkler via DF.
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It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah I think there’s one half a mile down, maybe. And you drive half a mile and see a big carwash place, and you park and walk in and ask to speak to the manager. And…
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The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bullshit. Richard Pryor, 1971 (via)
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. Ray Bradbury
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Prepare for Death, if here at Night you roam, And sign your Will before you sup from Home. Samuel Johnson on Old London Town
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Fred Hoyle has ingeniously speculated that, if we had been born with eight digits and therefore became accustomed to octal arithmetic instead of decimal, we might have invented binary arithmetic and hence electronic computers a century earlier than we did (since 8 is a power of 2). pp. 87, Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on…
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1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order…
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Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan…