R.A. MacAvoy |
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| But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right. --Tea with the Black Dragon |
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Bob MacDonald |
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| It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it. --Via BoingBoing 6/7/2003 |
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Michael Malone |
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| [...] as if my happiness [...] were some great bird shut into a cage so small that its wings crushed beat against the bars. --Uncivil Seasons |
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Barry Malzberg |
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| He has always trusted his senses although he has not precisely enjoyed them. --The Men Inside |
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| Insanity is merely another way of coming to terms with the environment in a healthy fashion. --The Men Inside |
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| It is amazing, simply amazing, how neutrally one can approach a disgusting task if one has cultivated simple resignation. --The Men Inside |
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Barry Manilow |
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| I considered myself and still consider myself the hippest man on the planet. --quoted in the Portland Oregonian, 11/6/1995, p. C1 |
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Manfred Mann |
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| Son I know the world is full of freaks and geeks and simple zanies. --Manfred Mann's Earth Band |
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Charles Manson |
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| If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire. --Rolling Stone interview |
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Renee Margocce |
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| Make me wet where it counts. |
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| Warm is In. |
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Jack Marshall |
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| Earth's not cherry anymore. --"How Do You Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century?" in Andrei Codrescu's The Devil Never Sleeps, p. 56 |
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Don McLean |
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| And the three men I admire most The Father, Son and Holy Ghost They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died... --"American Pie" |
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Michael McNeilly (mmichael@chinook.halcyon.com) |
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| I've found if you throw pearls before swine, they actually fucking eat them, which is both wasteful and disgusting to watch. --on the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.poems |
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Archibald McPhee |
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| May 23: Had a meeting [with the cook] but didn't accomplish anything. If a man can't cook, a meeting won't improve his cooking. --Tango Around the Horn See also: the website of Archie McPhee |
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Paul D. Mena |
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| Poetry = textual harassment --on the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.poems |
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Dennis Miller |
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| Bottom line: being a teacher today is more challenging than doing bikini waxes on Russian women. You enter your place of employment by passing through a metal detector that's beeping like the Roadrunner with Tourette's syndrome, and then spend six hours a day trying to drill even a subatomic-sized kernel of knowledge into the Dawson's Creek-and-Sony-Playstation-addled noggins of two dozen eye-rolling, world-weary, body-pierced felons-in-training who regard you with all the respect they would a stewardess on a spring-break charter flight to Cancun. And you know something? When you're not teaching kindergarten, it's even worse. --The Rant Zone |
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Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
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| I have given myself to the devil, because the devil is the only god in whom all the tribes believe. But he never answers my prayers, and I think I'll spit on his name. --Falon, "The Soul-Empty Ones" |
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Linda Mingo |
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| I bet the American Indians didn't have that color. |
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Marvin Minsky |
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| The brain of Homo sapiens is mainly composed of cabling. --The Society of Mind, 1986 illustrated edition, Appendix, p. 317 |
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| {A concise indictment of libertarianism}: It makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. --The Society of Mind, 1986 illustrated edition, p. 52 (emphasis mine) |
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| No possible inheritance of built-in genes can tell us what is good for us - because, unlike all other animals, we humans make for ourselves most of the problems we face. --The Society of Mind, 1986 illustrated edition, p. 164 |
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| One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. --The Society of Mind, 1986 illustrated edition, p. 65 |
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Jay Mitchell |
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| Nothing that's innocent is perfect. |
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Ander Monson |
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| Dear, some distances are accidental. --Other Electricities SEE ALSO: Brian Aldiss |
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J.P. Morgan |
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| A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good one and the real one. --quoted in Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out Of Time |
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Chris Moriarty |
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| I love my country enough to believe that she will outgrow her infatuation with the men of God and violence. --Didi Halevy, Spin Control, p. 175 (trade paperback) |
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Bob Mould |
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| Chicken understands the fox so well. --"Dreaming, I Am," Workbook |
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John Muir |
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| God cannot save them from fools. --Muir was talking about trees, but it's more generally relevant |
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Martin Mull |
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| What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act? --on The Late Show with David Letterman, regarding the "decaffeinization of America" |
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Jim Munroe |
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| There hasn't been a spontaneous youth subculture on Earth for almost a thousand years. They were hunted to extinction long ago. But we did the next best thing. --Angry Young Spaceman |
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Lyle Myhr |
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| When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet. --from a post by moh2@quads.uchicago.edu [Kateri/Mary Anne at The University of Chicago] on the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written |
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