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Re: Quotes
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
— Matt Cartmill
I hope at least somebody reads all of these . I'm not just picking them all "willy nilly", I think most everyone here will enjoy most all of these quotes .
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all."
-- Lewis Carroll / Chuck Dodgson
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"If you do not agree with anything I say, I'll not only retract it, but deny under oath that I ever said it!"
__________________________________________________ ______________-- Tom Lehrer
Curiouser & curiouser. - Reverend Dodgson
PS Chuck is one of the earliest photgraphers in the world, as well as a mathematician & story-teller of note.
---------------- semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
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Reason: speeling air Reverend, not Reverand - Dark Mind missed that one
"When you're being chased by a police dog, try not to run through a tunnel, jump over a little see-saw, and then go through a hoop that's on fire. They're trained for that."
- unknown criminal.