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-ID: a2b3be08-ecfe-4d90-ba72-c7da421ee897
-Title: Fortune cookies
-Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>
-Date: 2021-06-17T20:49:51-00:00
-Topics: Off-topic
-
-* Nobody can be exactly like me.  Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-		-- Tallulah Bankhead
-
-* A computer, to print out a fact,
-Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
-	But this output can be
-	No more than debris,
-If the input was short of exact.
-		-- Gigo
-
-* Conversation, n.:
-	A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath
-	is called the listener.
-
-* At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his
-thumb with a hammer.
-		-- Marshall Lumsden
-
-* Democracy is good.  I say this because other systems are worse.
-		-- Jawaharlal Nehru
-
-* Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche
--- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.  For instance,
-my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off
-the fence."  I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was
-undoubtedly true.
-		-- Solomon Short
-
-* Age, n.:
-	That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we
-still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise
-to commit.
-		-- Ambrose Bierce
-
-* A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard.
-		-- Prof. Steiner
-
-* We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last
-theorem.
-		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
-
-* We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
-socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by itself.  The
-bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say
-socialism?
-		-- Fidel Castro
-
-* Chism's Law of Completion:
-	The amount of time required to complete a government project is
-	precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.
-
-* A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
-		-- Herbert Prochnow
-
-* I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-		-- Bill Hoest
-
-* It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is
-lightly greased.
-		-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
-
-* Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
-
-* I think that I shall never see
-A billboard lovely as a tree.
-Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
-I'll never see a tree at all.
-		-- Ogden Nash
-
-* Pig, n.:
-	An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race
-	by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is
-	inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.
-		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
-
-* If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot
-platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave
-that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.
-The world's as ugly as sin,
-And almost as delightful.
-		-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
-* Main's Law:
-	For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
-
-* Some primal termite knocked on wood.
-And tasted it, and found it good.
-And that is why your Cousin May
-Fell through the parlor floor today.
--- Ogden Nash
-
-* "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity
-that would be clearly understood."
-		-- Alexander Haig