Too many good quotes flying by these days.

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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- R. Heinlein -- R. Heinlein
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Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence.
-- Tasnim Aslam, Spokesman for Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn -- Samuel Goldwyn
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@ -35522,6 +35525,10 @@ Never look up when dragons fly overhead.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a Never make anything simple and efficient when a
way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
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Never negotiate with the United States unless you have a nuclear
weapon.
-- Former deputy defense minister of India.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977 -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977
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@ -44439,6 +44446,10 @@ I rush!
Swipple's Rule of Order: Swipple's Rule of Order:
He who shouts the loudest has the floor. He who shouts the loudest has the floor.
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Symbolic representation of quantitative entities is doomed to its rightful
place of minor importance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
-- Albert Einstein
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Symptom: Drinking fails to give taste and satisfaction, beer is Symptom: Drinking fails to give taste and satisfaction, beer is
unusually pale and clear. unusually pale and clear.
Problem: Glass empty. Problem: Glass empty.
@ -50450,6 +50461,10 @@ There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess --
and there are few mistakes they have ever avoided. and there are few mistakes they have ever avoided.
-- Winston Churchill, Parliament, August, 1945 -- Winston Churchill, Parliament, August, 1945
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There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,
jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.
-- Ed Howdershelt
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There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable,
and praiseworthy ... and praiseworthy ...
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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There is brutality and there is honesty. There is brutality and there is honesty.
There is no such thing as brutal honesty. There is no such thing as brutal honesty.
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There is Good Information and there is Bad Information and the
Internet is generally pretty neutral about the difference. If you're
a computer, it's all just 0s and 1s.
-- Joel Achenbach
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,
whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of