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"Keep smiling. It makes people wonder what you've been up to."
Anon
"The weather is always weird somewhere"
Gregg Easterbrook
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."
Maori Proverb
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits"
Lazarus Long
"Rarely does anyone weigh facts before deciding what to believe"
Michael Shermer
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin"
John von Neumann
"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."
John Bishop
"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software License. No body actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree""
Anon
"There is hardly anything in the world that some men cannot make a little bit worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before"
Mae West (1892-1980)
"I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Success has many friends & relations......failure is an orphan"
Anon
"You want something done, ask a busy man."
Anon
"Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I’m worried about the difference between wrong and fun."
P.J. O’Rourke
"Isn't growth for the sake of growth the philosophy of cancer?"
John Langerak
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
Anon
"If you pay peanuts you get monkeys"
Edmund Burke
"The past, we inherit; the future, we build"
Anon
"...the words used to describe the indescribable are obviously inadequate"
Malcolm Godwin
"If every man said to have served in the Battle of Trafalgar actually did, the ships would have sunk"
Bruno Pappalardo, naval expert at the National Archives
"I intend to live forever ... So far so good"
Anon
"While we are postponing, life speeds by"
Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around"
Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)
"There is no truth on Earth that I fear to be known"
Thomas Jefferson
"What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?"
Mark Hickson
"You can't create democracy by invasion"
Tony Benn
"Before you can change the world you have to be able to form a picture of the world being other than it appears. Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."
Terry Pratchett
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"Its a lesson to always remember; if the service is free, YOU are the product"
Eric Peteroski
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Lord Acton
"Two wrongs are only the beginning"
Anon
"I love summer, it's the most beautiful day in the year..."
The Denying Dutchman
"God is not dead - he is alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project"
MRFS
"George Orwell was an optimist"
Isaac Asimov
"There is hardly anything in the world that some men cannot make a little bit worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
"I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up"
Anon
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see"
Alexandra Trenfor
"The opportunity of a lifetime must be taken during the lifetime of the opportunity"
Anon
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
Roedy Green
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans"
Anon
"We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying."
Douglas Adams, 1952 – 2001
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe"
H G Wells (1866-1946)
"God is Real, unless declared Integer"
Anonymous software engineer
"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
Jules Verne
"Never fall into the trap of judging that which you don't understand as nonsense"
Raymond E Feist
"I really do believe that the most optimistic thing about the human race is its relative stupidity. There would be little hope if the human race was as bright as it thinks it is and still got itself into so much trouble"
Edward de Bono
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault"
Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"
Anon
"Religion encysts past mythologies, guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements by people in search of personal power, mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question!"
Frank Herbert
"Hindsight is an exact science"
Ron "the Frog" Olgiati?
"For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Anon
"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
George Bernard Shaw
"Odd things, animals; all dogs look up to you, all cats look down to you; only a pig looks at you as an equal"
Winston Churchill
"I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous"
Anon
"I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash."
Anon
"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust"
E. B. White
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