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- From: boese@magenta.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Elizabeth S Boese)
- Subject: Quotes
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- Organization: Penn State Computer Science
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:10:51 GMT
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- "Life is short
- Stop the hate"
- -TV commercial
- .
- "In 1492, Columbus didn't know where he was going,
- had a mutinous crew and was entirely dependent
- on borrowed money. Today he'd be a political candidate."
- -Orben's Current Coemedy
-
- "Oh was there a man (but where shall I find
- Good sense and good nautre so equally joined?)"
- -Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- .
- "Ah, the life of a frog; that's the life for me."
- -Bart Simpson in "Crepes of Wrath"
- .
- "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
- -Paul Gauguin
- .
- "Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely
- a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the
- reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps
- never have seen in himself."
- -Marcel Proust
- .
- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds,
- The pessimist fears it is true."
- -Robert Oppenheimer
- .
- "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,
- But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to relitgion.
- -Francis Bacon
- .
- "All power corrupts, but we need electricity."
- .
- "There is but one flag, the white flag."
- -U2
- "
- "Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer,
- then you find there is nothing in it."
- .
- "If you don't understand my silence,
- You will not understand my words."
- .
- -ESB107@psuvm.psu.edu
- -boese@crayola.cs.psu.edu
- -a.k.a. da KeyMaster
- (seeker of butterflies)
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