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diff --git a/gph/a2b3be08.txt b/gph/a2b3be08.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cb1f1df..0000000 --- a/gph/a2b3be08.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -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 |