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- Chapter 16
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- QUOTES
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- "Things are always at their best in their beginning." -
- Bliase Pascal
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- "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it
- had happened or not." - Mark Twain
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- "The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and
- stupidity." - Harlan Ellison, science fiction author
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- "History is a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G.
- Wells
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- "...is like trying to nail jelly to a tree." - from an
- unknown book about a the difficulty of learning a computer
- programming language.
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- Starkle, starkle, little twink,
- Who the heck I am you think?
- I'm not under the akafluence of incohol,
- It's just that some
- thinkle peep I am.
- - unknown
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- "People with great minds talk about ideas.
- People with average minds talk about events.
- People with small minds talk about other people."
- - Ann Landers
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- "I believe I've found the missing link between animal and
- civilized man. It is us." - Konrad Lorenz
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- "I couldn't wait for success, so I went on ahead without it."
- - Jonathan Winters
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- "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like
- it..." -Samuel Goldwyn
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- [as a journalist] ..."You are responsible not only for what
- you do, you are responsible for what you see." - an outspoken
- Soviet journalist
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- "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." - Armand Hammer
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- "It is better to accomplish perfectly a very small amount of
- work, than to half do ten times as much." - from the book, Inquire
- Within, 1858
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- "When we all remember we are mad, the mysteries disappear and
- life stands explained." -Mark Twain
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- "A man with a watch knows what time it is; a man with two
- watches isn't so sure." - unknown
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- This line of poetry was generated by a computer working with
- random poetry software: "My engine starts to rev when you blow in
- my beer."
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- "This field of physics is so virginal that no human eyeball
- has ever set foot in it." - unidentified Ph.D student
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- "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much
- as you please." - Mark Twain
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- "We have no system; we have no rules, but we have a big scrap
- heap." - Thomas Edison (Some of his workers called it the
- "dungyard.")
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- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra
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- "Someday, composers will write music only computers can
- sing." - Clifford Pickover, IBM researcher
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- "Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order
- to receive the occasional strokes of genius." - Marshall Cook
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- What was this artist trying to say? "In my most recent
- paintings, I find myself stressing the linear antipathy of massive
- forms of light in contra-distinction to cattogrammatic and
- syncogrammatic antipodes of stasis."
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- "I telephoned the Mensa offices in England. Explaining how a
- friend of mine was, by their definition, thick (he had, I told
- them, an I.Q. of 80 or so), I suggested that perhaps he and I, or
- even a group, could add together our intelligence quotients and
- apply for some sort of joint membership. While the person at the
- other end of the telephone went off to inquire whether they
- accepted entrants on these terms, I quietly replaced the receiver,
- my last doubts confirmed." - Nigel Ffooks
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- "Procrastination means never having to say you're sorry." -
- Toni Epstein, New York
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- "It's a pity that taxpayers don't read science fiction. They
- might know about the age they're buying." - unknown
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- "Every serving of processed food is treated with one or more
- dyes, bleaches, emulsifiers, antioxidants, moisturizers,
- desiccants, extenders, thickeners, disinfectants, defoliants,
- fungicides, neutralizers, artificial sweeteners, hydrolyzers,
- anticaking and antifoaming agents, curers, hydrogenators,
- fortifiers, antibiotics, arsenic, artificial sex hormones, and
- pesticides." - Joseph Beasley, author of The Impact of Nutrition
- on the Health of Americans
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- "I was afraid that we were at a place where we were no longer
- going to be inheriting life from our fathers, but we were going to
- be borrowing it from our children." - Robert Redford
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- After Dentist Horace Wells used anesthesia for the first
- time in history to extract a tooth painlessly (1844), his
- associates suggested that he get a patent. He said, "Let it be
- free as the air."
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- "Overheard at a perfume counter in a large department store:
- 'If this stuff really worked, would I be standing here eight
- hours a day?'" - Ann Landers
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- "What we ought to do now, obviously, is suspend all activity
- until we can hold a plebiscite to select a panel that will appoint
- a commission authorized to hire a new team of experts to restudy
- the feasibility of compiling an index of all the committees that
- have in the past inventoried and cataloged the various studies
- aimed at finding out what happened to all the policies that were
- scrapped when new policies were decided on by somebody else. Once
- that's out of the way, I think we could go full steam ahead with
- some preliminary plans for a new study with Federal funds of why
- nothing can be done right now." - North Dakota Senator I.E.
- Solberg
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- "Of course truth is stranger than fiction. We see so much
- less of it." - Ivern Ball
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- "There's no way to rule innocent men." - Ayn Rand
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- "I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world
- to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to
- live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find
- each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped." - The
- Gestalt prayer, by psychologist Fritz Perls
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- "As soon as man applies his intelligence and only his
- intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the
- object." - Lev Tolstoy
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- "If I had to choose between pain and nothing I would always
- choose pain." - William Faulkner
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- "When we first look straight on at all this [American
- industrial and personal waste], it's easy to fall into despair,
- overwhelmed at the picture of Yankee know-how run amok, chopping
- up mountains and rivers to produce Barbie Dolls and Screaming
- Yellow Zonkers. But before you crumple up in a heap, notice the
- critical link in this awesome chain of industrialism. The reason
- for overconsumption is overconsumers. If the consumer refuses to
- be manipulated and makes wise choices that are not based on
- advertising, he - she - we! - can save the planet." - Laurel
- Robertson, in her book Laurel's Kitchen