we all have a tendency to philosophize about the three named things above...and if Ann Landers or Dear Abby were cynics, between the two of us, ira.day and we would have a bunch to send them.

• "I expect little or nothing out of anyone. That way, I am always surprised, and occasionally pleasantly so." ~Nadia Coruscani, 1999
• "i have a life. i just choose not to use it." ~this is jointly owned by ira and michelle
• "if what surrounds me are prime examples of the human race, then i refuse to be one of them."
• "The world's great curse is stupid people with mouths."
• "Ethics: Is it right?" ~courtesy of ms. queslan, on our telling her that we still didn't have a topic for our ethics paper due the next day.
• "Assume nothing."
• "Life's a bitch, and her name is Angst, and she's coming after me with a REEEALY big knife!" ~Angel Sayan
• "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~Goethe
• "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." ~James Branch Cabell
• "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." ~Ursula K. LeGuin
• "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde
• "an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience" ~Donald R.P. Marquis
• "The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism." ~Sir William Oster

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