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'It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.' ~Georges Duhamel

'Spring is Nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'' ~Robin Williams

'Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.' ~Erica Jong

'Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.' ~Albert Einstein

'If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?' ~Lily Tomlin

'Agnes thought'that 'cool' was a dumb word only used by people whose brains wouldn't fill a spoon.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

"California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange." ~Fred Allen

'Why do doctors always say the obvious as though it were a revelation?' ~Captain Jean Luc Picard

'Are you telling me I should fight a creature of legend'with a stick?' ~Natsiolani (sp?)

'They're not from the moon, Daniel.' ~One of my cousins explaining to another that my sister and I aren't quite as weird as he seemed to think

'Pizza can wait; friendship cannot.' ~Gwendolyn Lockwood

'A study in the Washington Post says women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study''Duh!'' ~Conan O'Brien

'These guys are kind of cute when they're not, you know, formed into a fiery column of death.' ~Milo Thatch

'If you gave back every stolen item in a museum, you'd be left with an empty building.' ~Roarke

'I know, why don't you translate, and I'll wave the gun around?!' ~Milo Thatch

'On the rare maps of the Ramtops that existed, it was spelled 'berwald. But Lancre people had never got the hang of accents and certainly didn't agree with trying to balance two dots on another letter, where they'd only roll off and cause unnecessary punctuation.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'In fact there are many things everyone knows about vampires, without really taking into account that perhaps the vampires know them by now, too.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'King Verence was very keen that someone should compose a national anthem for Lancre, possibly referring to its very nice trees, and had offered a small reward. Nanny Ogg reasoned that it would be easy money because national anthems only ever have one verse or, rather, all have the same second verse, which goes 'nur'hnur'mur'nur nur, hnur'nur'nur, hnur' at some length until everyone remembers the last line of the first verse and sings it as loudly as they can.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid.' ~The Count de Magpyr

'What's the difference between a man and E.T.? E.T. phoned home.' ~Anonymous

'The thin, narrow-shouldered ectomorph who was yesterday's spinster librarian is today's high fashion model; the plump and buxom endomorph who was a Victorian romantic ideal today is eating cottage cheese and grapefruit, and weighing in every Tuesday at Weight Watchers.' ~Phyllis Bronstein-Burrows

'Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.' ~W. Somerset Maugham

'In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are'just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity.' ~Thomas Bouchard

'Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.' ~Lieutenant Commander Data

'If you had an off switch, doctor, would you not keep it secret?' ~Lieutenant Commander Data

'Heredity deals the cards, environment plays the hand.' ~Charles L. Brewer

'All of us who make motion pictures are teachers, teachers with very loud voices.' ~George Lucas

'You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.' ~Sir Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis

'Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.' ~Mark Twain

'He who fears all snares falls into none.' ~Pulbis Syrus, Sententiae

'Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger idea, [the mind] never returns to its original size.' ~Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes

'A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.' ~Philosopher Paul Kurtz

'My deeply held belief is that if a god anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts'if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.' ~Carl Sagan

'In solving one discovery, we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we had no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.' ~Joseph Priestly, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

'I am still learning.' ~Michelangelo at age 85

'In youth we learn, in age we understand.' ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

'Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.' ~Epicharmus

'From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.' ~Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

'At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes ' an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.' ~Carl Sagan

'I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.' ~Philosopher Bertrand Russell

'Learning is the eye of the mind.' ~Thomas Drake, Bibliotheca Scholastica Instructissima

'O! This learning, what a thing it is.' ~William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

'Knit each new thing on to some acquisition already there.' ~William James, Principles of Psychology

'All words are pegs to hang ideas on.' ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

'Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.' ~The Buddah

'Everything important has been said before.' ~Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead

'There is as much difference between us and ourselves, as between us and others.' ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays

'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.' ~Krishnamurti

'They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Let's see if the typewriter is mightier than the bulldozer.' ~Lucky Piquel

'The eensy weensy spider caught a mouse in its web. The inky dinky spider BIT OFF the mouse's head!' ~Chula

'If this Pumaman/invaders from space thing turns out to be the true religion, I, for one, will be very surprised.' ~Mike Nelson

'My head is in the carpet.' ~Gesture

'There's doom in my face.' ~Gesture

'His body needs to grow into his head.' ~Duckie about baby Bale

'Considering the rate at which you imbibe, sir, are you sure your lineage isn't at all mixed with human?' ~Lieutenant Commander Data

''Shall I see you again tomorrow?' said Vlad, proving to Agnes that males of every species could posses a stupidity gene.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'Most people put up with most things, Agnes.' ~Vlad de Magpyr

'Mythology's jus the folktales of the people who won 'cos they had bigger swords.' ~Esmerelda 'Granny' Weatherwax

'I'm just not thrilled with the prospect of having my innards be the subject of Starfleet gossip.' ~Captain Jean Luc Picard

'If winning is not important, Commander, then why keep score?' ~Lieutenant Worf

'Well, think about it. A blind man teaching an android how to paint. That's got to be worth a couple of pages in somebody's book.' ~Commander William Riker

'A carpenter without cuts on his hands is not a carpenter. He's an observer.' ~Stuart Heaton

'Only fools have no fear.' ~Lieutenant Worf

'That would be SO COOL if it wasn't about to hurt us.' ~Ron Stoppable

'I like that plane. I want to be on that plane.' ~Duckie while watching The Mummy

'I'm not that omniscient, Pearl.' ~Observer

'Captain, I do not believe you have the authority to promote me to admiral.' ~Lieutenant Commander Data, just not getting the joke, once again

'The pursuit of excellence? You mean, you don't have to actually catch it?' ~Jane Lane

'Of course, Granny Weatherwax made a great play of her independence and self-reliance. But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant at.' ~Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

'If people wanted to go around teaching people lessons, other people should remember that those people knew a thing or two about people.' ~Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

'Hostage situations are easier when you make your demands CLEAR!' ~Duckie

'I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!' ~Ryan Stiles

'People think that the floor is something to transport you from one room to another, when, in reality, it's the biggest shelf in the house.' ~Theo Greenley

'Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.' ~a t-shirt in a magazine

'There's no point in having underlings if you don't let them be the first to go through suspicious doors.' ~Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

'And that which does kill us leaves us dead!' ~Lacrimosa de Magpyr

'Good thing your head isn't made of frozen chicken.' ~Brad Sherwood

'I don't know them; they're not my friends!' ~Gesture

'It's not marching, it's dying with style.' ~Gwendolyn Lockwood

'Wait, it's not dying, it's marching with style. That sounds better.' ~Gwendolyn Lockwood

'Why don't they just put Marmaduke to sleep?' ~Jake Morgendorffer

"You see things with the eyes of a child, and that makes you more human than any of us." ~Lieutenant Tasha Yar about Lieutenant Commander Data

'What the [Tartarus]? Children are not allowed on the bridge!" ~Captain Jean Luc Picard's first words to Westley Crusher

'I am Klingon! If you are in doubt, a demonstration can be arranged!" ~Lieutenant Worf

'Many things seem determined to happen to me for the first time, and your company will surely not be the strangest of them, nor the last.' ~The unicorn to Schmendrick

'My father hates cats. He says that there is no such thing as a cat'it is just a shape that all manner of imps, hobs, and devilkins like to put on to gain easy entrance into the homes of men.' ~Prince L'r

"But I'm too young to die! And too nice! And much, much, MUCH too nervous!' ~Fenton Crackshell

'How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.' ~Jon Stewart

'It is an inappropriate response to get a headache in the presence of a miracle.' ~Clare from 'The Grand Canyon'

'It's a game. That's why we call it 'the news.' It's just a game.' ~Steven Colbert

'I'm only dying, not crippled.' ~Gerald Martin on his deathbed

'No book worth reading has ever been written that didn't manage to offend someone.' ~Paul Charney

'Ideas can't do harm'even wrong ideas, even foolish and vicious ideas. People do the harm. They seize hold of certain ideas, sometimes, and use them as the justification for doing unconscionable, outrageous things. Human history is full of examples of that. But the ideas themselves are just ideas. They must never be throttled.' ~Paul Charney

'What I don't like Bigots: C'mon people it's just dumb. There are so many reasons to despise people as individuals.' ~Ricia

'Madness looks better when it's neatly organized.' ~Daria Morgendorffer in Galen Hardesty's 'The Whole Truth'

'She fakes sanity real good.' ~Daria Morgendorffer about Jodie Landon in Galen Hardesty's 'The Whole Truth'

'I'm sorry, Wazowski, but Randall said I'm not allowed to fraternize with victims of his evil plot.' ~Fungus

'All the real men are cartoon characters.' ~Gypsy Layla Angus

'Let the calculus consume you.' ~Mr. Jaffurs

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