Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
-Lewis Thomas
Proletarian revolutions are notably ineffective when the ruling class is composed of gods.
You know that opinions are like asses (everyone has one), what happens is that you can't get a good one by means of surgery.
The universe is like a grapefruit--it's yellow and dimply, and some people have half of one for breakfast.
the next time you make a purchase hand the clerk a 1 dollar bill and ask her to make change. she will hand you back a number of coins, several which bear the likenesses of several long dead historical figures...
if you don't vote you can't complain; if you did vote for these idiots you really can't complain.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-George Orwell
Nothing compares to the great joy when you show up to work at your new job an hour early, the early morning, except for the feeling when you realize that the sun doesn't usually rise in the west...
If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
-Church Sign in Northern Ireland
Murphey's law always brings good luck, you mortals just don't see it that way.
(The Goddess Murphey)
IMAGINE THE ODDS YOU BEAT TO EVEN READ THIS! YOU WERE THE FIRST SPERM TO REACH THE EGG! YOU ALREADY WON, SO FUCKING RELAX ALREADY!
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
-Harold R. McAlindon
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