10-21-2004, 04:45 AM
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There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.
-- Eric Hoffer
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10-21-2004, 06:43 AM
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MR. Smartypants to you.
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O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! But when we’ve practised quite a while How vastly we improve our style. -- J.R. Pope (embellished from Sir Walter Scott)
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10-21-2004, 09:31 PM
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I used to be a girl
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"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on ... shame on .............. uh, me. Fool me, uh, ........ uh, you can't get fooled again."
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10-21-2004, 10:21 PM
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MR. Smartypants to you.
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A fool may be a dangerous customer, but the fact of his having such a vulnerable top-end turns danger into a first-rate sport; and whatever defects the old administration in Russia had, it must be conceded that it possessed one outstanding virtue—a lack of brains.
-- Vladimir Nabokov
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10-23-2004, 03:57 AM
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meretricious dilettante
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Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
-- Judge Smails
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10-23-2004, 06:50 AM
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When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health, that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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10-25-2004, 04:03 AM
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monkey
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never express yourself more clearly than you think -- neils bohr
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10-25-2004, 11:02 AM
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left hanging
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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
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10-26-2004, 08:00 AM
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and how many hours a day did you do lessons? said alice in a hurry to change the subject. "ten hours the first day " said the mock turtle, "nine the next and so on." "what a curious plan!" exclaimed alice. "that's the reason they're called lessons." the gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day."
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10-26-2004, 08:23 AM
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A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
-- John Dennis (1657–1734), British playwright, critic.
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10-28-2004, 11:45 AM
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left hanging
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If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head.
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10-28-2004, 12:35 PM
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contrariwise, continued tweedledee, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. that's logic.
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10-28-2004, 02:21 PM
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the fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational
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10-28-2004, 03:55 PM
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meretricious dilettante
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Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman
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10-28-2004, 04:53 PM
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MR. Smartypants to you.
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Mmmmmmmm, pie...
-- Homer Simpson
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