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So anyhow, all your goddamn poets will write tired sonnets about the good old days when the noblemen kicked the piss out of the peasants and the peasants kicked the piss out of the Jews.

Before we pass judgment on the Germans let me say that I have never found an American who has expressed personal guilt over the fact that we destroyed a people and their civilization in brutal indifference to gain the North American continent.

The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

Newton was "not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings.

1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark's Jews.

To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.

Whatever— the soup is getting cold. [Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, 1518]

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

which gave Cleveland the second-largest theater complex in the country, right behind Lincoln Center in New York.

Mystic Pizza? It was one of Julia Roberts's

Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

You know, he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off. pg. 199

The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense.

I've had nothing yet,'Alice repilied in an offended tone, 'so I can't takr more.' 'You mean you can't take less.' said the Hatter: ' it's very easy to take more than nothing.

Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.