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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>The Quotations File: 3</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#E0E0E0"> <IMG Align=Top SRC="world.gif"> <H1>Quote that sucker (3):</H1> <HR> <P><B>I <I>am</I> the Supreme Being, you know. I'm not entirely dim. <BR>-God (in <CITE>Time Bandits</CITE>)</B> <P><FONT SIZE=5>I didn't invent this buzzing confusion. It's all around us. <BR>--Samuel Beckett</FONT> <P><CODE>However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. <BR>--David Berlinski</CODE > <P>The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable. <BR>--Errol Morris <P>No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one <B>behind</B> the bars of their cages. <BR>--David Berlinski <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="greenball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><i>Where do we go to escape the modern? Modern is no good, we know. Big mistake. <B>Huge</B> mistake-- ugliness and cruelty and horror and squalor and publicity. Modernism wanted to change the world, and it achieved <B>nothing</B>. <BR>--Alex Melamid</I> <P><FONT SIZE=4>Modernism is finished! Call the cops! <BR>--Tom Wolfe</FONT> <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT SIZE=4><B>The first principle is that you must not fool yourself-- and you are the easiest person to fool. <BR>--Richard Feynman</B></FONT> <P>Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem it was intended to solve. <BR>--Karl Popper <P><CODE>How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? <BR>--Wolfgang Pauli [of a problem in physics]</CODE> <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="greenball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>There's no idea that's so good that you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots. <BR>--Scott Adams</B> <P><I>When God created the stock market, he told it, "Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try." <BR>--Andrew Tobias</I> <P>I will tell you a secret: dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. <BR>--Management theorist Peter Drucker <P>Only the <FONT SIZE=2>little people</FONT> pay taxes. <BR>--Leona Helmsley <P><I>Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the esssence of the evolutionary spirit... Greed-- mark my words-- will save the U.S.A. <BR>--Gordon Gekko (<CITE>Wall Street</CITE>)</I> <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT SIZE=5>Good is better than evil because it's nicer. <BR>--Mammy Yokum</FONT> <P><I>The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects. <BR>--Alexis de Tocqueville</I> <P>Do you think the Party changed its mind about holding power because it wanted to? They hear our voices even if they're not very loud. After Romania, their hearing improved. <BR>--a Soviet Georgian woman <P><B>It was as though Kafka's Joseph K. had been retried and acquitted. <BR>--Amos Elon, on the "Prague Autumn"</B> <P>Marxism has almost invariably brought about the vengeful destruction of productive power, not the thoughtful redistribution of it. <BR>--Jonathon Kwitny <P><B>Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time. <BR>--Mario Vargas Llosa</B> <P>An old friend, still convinced that art is a firearm, was so good as to warn us that it is almost treachery to make films about love in a world oppressed by injustice and poverty. <br>I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes. <BR>--Gabriel García Márquez <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="greenball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. <BR>--Frank Zappa</B> <P>Heaven would be a place where bullshit existed only on television. (Hallelujah! We's halfway there!) <BR>--Frank Zappa <P><I>I realize I am generalizing here, but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. <BR>--Dave Barry</I> <P><FONT SIZE=4>It is no disgrace for a person to fall, but to lie there and grunt is. <BR>--Matt Groening</FONT> <P>Being a good embalmer is a thankless job. <BR>--Matt Groening <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><CODE><B>There you go</B>, mate. Keep as <B>cool</B> as you can. Face piles of trials with smiles. It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave. And keep on <B>thinking free</B>. <BR>--The Moody Blues</CODE> <P><I>Oh oh children of the land <BR>Love is still the answer Take my hand <BR>The vision fades <BR>A voice I hear: <BR>"Listen to the Madman!" <BR>But still I fear <BR>And still I dare not <BR>Laugh at the Madman. <BR>--Queen</I> <P><FONT SIZE=5><PRE>It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. <BR>--R.E.M.</PRE></FONT> <P><B>I am the eggman <BR>They are the eggmen <BR>I am the walrus <BR>Goo goo g'joob <BR>--John Lennon</B> <P><FONT SIZE=+1>Olha que coisa mais linda mais cheia de graça <br>é ela a menina> que vem <BR>e que passa num doçe balanço a caminho do mar. <BR><FONT SIZE=-1>[The usual English equivalent is: <BR>Tall and thin and young and lovely, <BR> the girl from Ipanema goes walking <BR>and as she passes each one she passes says, <FONT SIZE=+1>"Aaah!"</FONT> <BR>More literally: <BR>Look, such a lovely thing, so full of grace: <BR>It's her, the girl who comes <BR>balanced so sweetly, on her way to the sea.]</FONT> <BR>--Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="greenball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT SIZE=4><B>Si le bon Dieu a mis les anglais sur une île, c'est qu'il avait ses raisons. <BR>[If God put the English on an island, it's because he had his reasons.] <BR>--an old Frenchwoman living near the Chunnel</B></FONT> <P>I like to think hell has a special circle set apart for Americans who are Anglophiles-- although they call it a 'roundabout'. <BR>--Speaker on WBEZ <P><I>One can always make new friends, but a good butler is not easy to find. <BR>--Miss Manners (Judith Martin)</I> <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="redball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><CODE>Progress is not made by early risers, it is made by lazy people looking for an easier way of doing something. <BR>--Robert Heinlein (probably)</CODE> <P>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. It follows that all progress depends on the unreasonable man. <BR>--George Bernard Shaw <P><BLOCKQUOTE><IMG Align=Top SRC="greenball.gif"></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><I>What is this that roareth thus? <BR>Can it be a Motor Bus? <BR>Yes, the smell and hideous hum <BR>Indicat Motorem Bum! <BR>How shall wretches live like us <BR>Cincti Bis Motoribus? <BR>Domine, defende nos <BR>Contra hos Motores Bos! <BR>--A.D. Godley</I> <hr><center> <a href="quotes2.html"><IMG alt="back" SRC="back.gif"></a> <a href="default.html"><IMG alt="home" border=0 SRC="home.gif"></a> <a href="quotes4.html"><IMG alt="next" SRC="next.gif"></a> </center> </BODY> </HTML>