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Note that use of individual Quote File entries are not covered under the license terms above, the terms above apply to redistribution of the file as a whole and/or substantial excerpts. 2 quotes: a Actually, I think what would be most appropriate is if we were all to shut up now. -Majdi Abbas A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. -Edward Abbey Grown men do not need leaders. -Edward Abbey If the end does not justify the means - what can? -Edward Abbey Might does not make right but it sure makes what is. -Edward Abbey The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. -Edward Abbey The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations. -Edward Abbey What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up. -Edward Abbey Some people wish for peace for our children and their children. This is not enough. We must insist on peace for ourselves. -King Abdullah of Jordan In fact, the ubiquity of the handheld reflects two other key trends among the Baby Boomers: No one has a secretary, and no one can remember a damn thing. -Elliott Abrams 3 Hey, if you've got a whole dump truck full of skulls...how are you going to keep track? -Jeremy Abramsom I'm of the opinion that everyone should be beaten at least once a year. -Jeremy Abramsom ...and I was just trying to live my bloody life - you know, get from A to B, and do a little shopping - only to find that in fact life is controlled poorly by bits of bloody, bloody buggery bits of paper. I mean, why can't life just be made a little bit easier for everybody, you know, I mean why do we pay bloody taxes? I know, you know, to buy railings to put outside bloody shops so stupid people can't run into the bloody road, but you know, we're not all stupid. We don't all need nursemaiding. I mean, why not have a stupidity tax, just tax the stupid people! -Absolutely Fabulous Dick Cheney's job in the White House will be to oversee the military, foreign affairs, the federal budget, federal agencies, judicial appointments, executive branch hiring and firing, and West Wing office space distribution. Bush can play 36 holes. -Joel Achenbach I find myself using the word "bandwidth" now, and feel the mounting urge to say "megabit" and "gigabit" and "terabit" as though these are normal words like "tree" and "rock" and "bunny." I've learned the meaning of the word "photonics," and now, like many techies, believe the most important fundamental particle in the communications industry of the future will be the photon, not the electron. You know your world has changed, has become more innately technological, when a distinction like that strikes you as interesting. -Joen Achenbach If novelty was the essential ingredient of modern art, then repetition is the hallmark of postmodern craft. -Joel Achenbach The young don't feel any great need to wait for the Walk sign before they cross the street. They feel invulnerable. Over time, you better appreciate the consequences of each action. You see people get burned, you see friends fall apart, you go to a few heartbreaking funerals. You begin to realize that survival requires cunning, and as a hedge, as part of a long-term strategy for improving your odds, you wait on the corner until you get the signal to walk. -Joel Achenbach 4 Yes, the race is close. But it should be. That's not a sign of unfinished business. That's a sign of a politically mature system. Our two major parties are enormous, amoebic entities, shifting and morphing over time, sliding left and right, subsuming various factions of voters. A perfect system will result in close elections. The only thing that could skew the system is if one party has a truly wonderful, enchanting, superior candidate. This year we don't have that problem. -Joel Achenbach Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power, corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. -Lord Acton Hey! Are you people moshing? This is techno. TECH-NO. You don't mosh to techno, you mosh to hardcore. HARD-CORE. -DJ Mohawk Adam Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon briefing with the excitement of double- entry bookkeeping. -Cecil Adams on Dungeons & Dragons In some ways we know more about what happened in the universe's first tenth of a second than we do about what goes on in the interval between "Your place or mine?" and deciding who sleeps on the wet spot. -Cecil Adams He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. -Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. -Douglas Adams 5 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all." In other words, - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. -Douglas Adams The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. -Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -Douglas Adams There was a point to this narrative, but it has presently escaped the chronicler's mind. -Douglas Adams There's nothing in life so difficult that a Microsoft manual can't make it completely incomprehensible. -Douglas Adams We may not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end. -Douglas Adams Why is there pain and misery in the world?... Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why didn't Microsoft even put in a word count? These things are unknowable. -Douglas Adams Nothing in education is so atonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts -Henry Adams 6 I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. -John Adams Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -Mike Adams As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2,400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line. -Scott Adams on the ending of Calvin & Hobbes If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -Scott Adams Most of the other suggestions involved doing things that were impractical, obscene or illegal. I tried them all personally, and although I must say I enjoyed several of them they didn't meet all of the criteria for selection. -Scott Adams My business cards have said "engineer" for several years, but that's mostly to impress women.