Here lies part of my .sigfile collection. See the .sigfile page for any details that aren't obvious.
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"One source of man's weariness is the pursuit of things that can never
satisfy; but which one of us has not been caught up in that pursuit at
some time in our life? Our passions, possessions, and pride - these are all
dead things. When we try to get life out of dead things, the result is
only weariness and dissatisfaction." -Max Lucado
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The Universe is utterly indifferent to the fact that
you do not realize the consequences of your actions,
you will have to deal with them just the same.
"Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm
ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are
forever." - The Laws of Physics
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First they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
-- Unknown --
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love -- they had 500 years
of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
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* Avoid bickering and petty arguments by immediately punching *
* anyone with whom you disagree. *
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+ If you love something, set it +
+ free. If it doesn't come back +
+ to you, hunt it down and +
+ KILL it. +
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|Lister: Love is what separates us from the animals
|Rimmer: No, Lister -- what separates us from animals
|is that we don't use our tongues to clean our genitals
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Most people seem to think that trampling individual rights is OK if it is
"for the good of society as a whole." However, society is but a large number
of individuals, and how can harming the individual parts better the whole?
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"We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote?
What does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
-- Helen Keller
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| Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody
| rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the
| war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Every-
| body knows the fight was fixed: the poor stay poor, the
| rich get rich. That's how it goes. Everybody knows.
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"It's not denial. I'm just very selective about
what I accept as reality."
--- Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
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| "Freedom's just another word
| for nuthin' left to lose"
| -Kris Kristofferson
"No Give and Take. No Exchange of
Thought. It gets you nowhere,
particularly if the other person's
tail is only just in sight for the
second half of the conversation."
-- Eeyore
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A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take
the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who
might be the target of the well-read man? Me?
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
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| The man who never alters his opinion is like the
| stagnant water and breeds Reptiles of the mind.
| --William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Dort, wo man Buecher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen
(Heinrich Heine)
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Unclear on the Concept, No. 5:
There are many ways to make a good first impression on someone. Dropping
hints that the individual in question is a bit smellier than you'd been
expecting is, however, not likely to be on the list.
'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the Death your
right to say it' Attr. Voltaire
"Getting an education was a bit like a
communicable sexual disease. It made
you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then
you had the urge to pass it on."
-Terry Pratchett, _Hogfather_
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Another month ends
All targets met
All systems working
All customers satisfied
All staff eager and enthusiastic
All pigs fed and ready to fly.
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* * "God has no place within these *
* * walls, just as facts have no *
* * place within organised religion."*
* * The Simpsons, #100. 1994 *
"Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and
remain that way until about thirty minutes after clinical death.
Longer if it's a warm day."
"Be wary of geeks bearing .gifs.."
"...In the Force if Yoda's so strong, form sentences with
words in the proper order then why can't he?..."
--Luke, muttering under his breath during training.
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I came close to seeing Elvis once, but my shovel broke.
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"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the
wrong answers." Fry and Laurie.
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"I fall in love with someone new practically every day, but that's OK, it's
just the price I pay for being a man." - The Divine Comedy
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"It is better to incur a mild rebuke than to perform an
onerous task"
----Roald Dahl
"My Uncle Oswald"
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Don't look behind you; the lemmings are catching up.=8-0|
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? |
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