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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