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"Sometimes the habit of indirectness goes beyond charm into the absurd. Take my friend Durrett. He and his two brothers are gay. Every year they take their boyfriends to Mississippi and have Christmas dinner with their mom. They've never come out to her and she's never asked why they keep bringing guys home instead of girls. Six men, a mom, a meal, and no mention of the obvious. It perfectly captures the paradox of the South: love, warmth and silence."
Salon: http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/02/26/polite/index.html

"There are two major products that came out of U Cal Berkley:
LSD and Unix.
We do not believe this to be a coincidence."
--Jeremy S. Anderson (among others)

"I wish mom had told me the same thing about guys as she had about horror movies when I was 5: 'Don't worry, honey, it's all fake.'"
-- Jill Kostelecky

God creates dinosaurs.
God destroys dinosaurs.
God creates man.
Man destroys God.
Man creates dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs eat man.
Women rule the earth.

-- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

"And to the query: 'What is a friend?', he replies: 'A single soul living in two bodies.'"
-- Aristotle

"It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games, or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world's most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon -- the blueprint for celebrity. Unfortunately, for all of their morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue."
--Marilyn Manson, Rolling Stone magazine, June 24

See thou Character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his Act:
Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar:
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy Soul, with hoops of Steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each unhatch't, unfledg'd Comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrell: but being in
Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee.
Give euery man thine ear; but few thy voice:
Take each man censure; but reserve thy judgement:
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy;
But not exprest in fancy; rich, not gawdy:
For the Apparell oft proclaimes the man.
And they in France of the best rank and station,
Are of a most select and generous cheff in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For lone oft loses both it self and friend:
And borrowing dulls the edge of Husbandry.
This above all; to thine owne self be true:
And it must follow, as the Night the Day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my Blessing season this in thee.

-- Polonius to Laertes, Shakespeare's Hamlet

This guy on Fox News, discussing (I think) MP3s and file sharing (he was addressing a member of the RIAA):
What do you mean you can't compete with free? Are you telling me bottled water can't compete with tap water? Are you telling me Barnes and Noble can't compete with the library? And... Starbucks -- Starbucks competes against legions of office coffeepots everywhere -- are you telling me Starbucks can't compete? (paraphrased)

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