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Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.

Ted Nugent is an asshole. He always was.

I say, thou mad March hare.

Zero tolerance leads to zero common sense.

It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?

concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it. Thus, blackness is an attribute of a crow

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Lisa: Well, where's my Dad? Professor Frink: Well, that should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology that Homer Simpson has stumbled into...the third dimension.

Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest. It

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

the lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything?

We live together, you and I, in a dark time when all official history is propaganda.

It wasn't hard to get urine. Folks back home had taken to selling Mason jars of it at flea markets. Whitney

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Karen Hess, the editor, is this country's culinary conscience

I prefer redheads." "What?" She narrowed her eyes as the hairs on her neck stood to attention. So does my cheating prick of a husband. "Why did you say that?" A grin played at the ends of the hired gun's mouth. "Excuse me?" "Redheads. Why the fuck did you say that?" "I don't follow you." He shrugged. "It's a personal preference, nothing more." Her

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.