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The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ~Frank James



To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. ~Terri Guillemets



Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. ~Ralph Blane



Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha



Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown



There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997



The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. ~Peter Lynch



Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932



You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," 1972 You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the north and the south in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," original airdate 17 September 1972, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Gene Reynolds



Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. ~Michael Fox, Sierra, November-December 1990



All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. ~Eddie Murphy, 1979



History is a pageant and not a philosophy. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History



Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev



Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21



At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water. ~Aviva Kaufman



The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



I walked barefoot - the only way to walk on a muddy road. ~Laurie Gough, "Light on a Moonless Night"



This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. ~Richard Burton



I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. ~Johnny Mercer, on a British musical