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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


What happened last night can happen again.


Duckies are fun!


Sorry. Nice try.


Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.


There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of
moral responsibility and treat them as victims of
social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your
soul.
-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker


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