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"Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement."
—Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop, 1944

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Qoute - Thomas Edison

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An addition to the Americans getting dumber clip.

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"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas Edison

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Qoutes

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:45:03 GMT

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"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

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QUOTES

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:44 GMT

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"This, above all:
To thine own self be true."
— William Shakespeare

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

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101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:48:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Carlin for pope!
This is one of the few humans that makes any sense at all.

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101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes

I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?

I wanna live. I don’t wanna die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.

No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

“No comment” is a comment.

So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

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Quotes of the Day

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:53:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On the Qoutation Page you can find a lot of intelligent and inspiring quotes. I particulary like Bertrand Russel. He said some sarcastic things.

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell

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Some Famous Deathbed Quotes and Epitaphs

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:42:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Shakespeare's one is really good.. i loved the Keat's one too..

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"Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet."

Vespasian (9-79 AD), Roman emperor

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), British dramatist. As he lay dying in Paris

"Why are you weeping? Did you imagine that I was immortal?"

Louis XIV (1638-1715), Well known French king, as his servants cried for him.

"Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms."

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet

"I'm so bored with it all."

Winston Churchill

"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."

Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), Response from the British poet when asked if he would like some fruit or flowers

Epitaphs

"Good friend for Jesus's sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blest be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones".
William Shakespeare's epitaph

- on his grave in Stratford upon Avon church.

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water"

John Keats - Poet, his own epitaph.

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