Quotes

You believe you understand

I know you believe you understand what it was you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant...

— Anonymous (me?)

Visit home with a friend

It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings ...

— Playboy, January 1983

Marching piccolo player

Submarines, flying boats, robots, talking pictures, radio, television, bouncing radar vibrations off the moon, rocket ships, and atom-splitting -- all in our time. But nobody has yet been able to figure out a music holder for a marching piccolo player.

— Meredith Willson, 1948

Western civilization

As Mahatma Gandhi was boarding a train... journalist: Mahatma, what do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The magnetic strip's worn thin

I've proven who I am so many times beforeThe magnetic strip's worn thinAnd each time I was someone elseAnd everyone was takin in

— Bruce Cockburn

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

All others must submit an X.509 certificate

In God we trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.

— Charles Forsythe

Nothing real can be threatened

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

— Introduction to A Course In Miracles

A hard government

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laws do not persuade

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

— Seneca, 65 AD
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