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“Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.”
-- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"


Fortune: You will be attacked next Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. by six samurai
sword wielding purple fish glued to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Oh, and have a nice day!
-- Bryce Nesbitt '84


Don't Worry, Be Happy.
-- Meher Baba


A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give
orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem,
pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently,
die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"


What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes.


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
-- William Blake


Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little
too early for anything you want to do.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre


I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant


It's a very *__UN*lucky week in which to be took dead.
-- Churchy La Femme


Don't worry. Life's too long.
-- Vincent Sardi, Jr.


Be cheerful while you are alive.
-- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C.


Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant


You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.


We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be
to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-- T.S. Eliot


If God is One, what is bad?
-- Charles Manson


The whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes.
-- George Gobel


Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
-- Beckett


“Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.”
-- Jeff Berner


The fact that it works is immaterial.
-- L. Ogborn


Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
-- Carl Sagan


Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
-- Michel de Montaigne


Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
-- James Thurber


Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
-- Irene Peter


What happened last night can happen again.


Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
-- Hunter S. Thompson


Duckies are fun!


Sorry. Nice try.


Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.


Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.


'Faith' means not _wanting_ to know what is true.
-- Nietzsche, Der Antichrist