HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tjg01@thdhub.HomeDepot.COM (Terry Gardner)
Subject: genuine G
Organization: Home Depot USA, Inc.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:13:20 GMT
Distribution: alt


	"Wherever I have been, I am back."

			-- Gandalf


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terry@HomeDepot.COM                      (404) 433-8211x5124 or (404) 941-8304
From: kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Explain this group
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:42:37 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

In article <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com>
columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes: 

>Verily, there is indeed nothing new under the sun.  I could swear I've
>read the above sentiment, except more pithily expressed.....

There is a beautiful formulation in a story by Erich Kastner:
"there is no freshly fallen snow".  It goes on to explain that even 
if you go to the top of the most faraway peak, you will find old tracks
in the snow that mark the passage of others.
From: Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu (Bucky Whaley)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Shakespearean Quotations: Do you fancy a few?
Date: 1 Jan 93 21:58:27 GMT
            <1992Dec29.233812.16777@news2.cis.umn.edu> 
            <1992Dec30.155415.23627@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Organization: The Lutefisk Watch

The best, IMHO:

  "Ripeness is all."


You don't wake up from The Big Disclaimer:
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From: jun@ami.nakahara.fujitsu.co.jp (Jun Ebihara)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Penguin's Penguins
Date: 29 Dec 92 02:17:27 GMT
Reply-To: jun@ami.nakahara.fujitsu.co.jp
Distribution: alt
Organization: Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan.


        "TOWARD ALL THINGS INTERESTED INDIFFERENCE"
                                   by Dennis Traut

--
Jun Ebihara 
jun@ami.nakahara.fujitsu.co.jp
It is no use crying over split TTY driver.
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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:15:07 GMT

garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett) writes:
| 	"Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

Noel Coward on Hell:  "The noise, my dear.  The *people*!"

You need to deliver it in the right weary, plummy accent.
-- 
David Brooks					dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Shine out, fair sun, with all your heat!  Black winter freezes to his seat...
The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
From: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Attribution
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:19:16 GMT
Reply-To: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

>"He who hesitates is sometimes saved." -I don't know

 -- James Thurber, in "Fables for Our Times"
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: culhane@vis.toronto.edu (Sean Culhane)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 27 Dec 92 02:13:19 GMT

Seen in the men's washroom of a Toronto restaurant:

   "We aim to please.
    You aim too, please."

--
Sean Culhane, Graduate Student  | A student flipping a coin to get answers in
Computer Vision Lab,            | a true/false test stays long after everyone
Dept. of Computer Science,      | else is finished.  The Prof. says "What are
University of Toronto           | you still doing here?".  The student, still
culhane@vis.toronto.edu         | flipping coins, says "Checking my answers."
From: wrowe@reed.edu ( )
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: War and Politics (Was Re: Slick Willie)
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:39:53 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In response to:

"When I consider the caliber, the bravery and the patriotism of the fine
 young soldiers whose deaths I have witnessed...it is untenable..." etc etc.


--> "War is too important to leave to generals."
				- Clemenceau



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From: clc@nevada.edu (Chris L. Cobb)
Subject: Re: Rita Mae Brown
Organization: UCCSN-SCS
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:50:11 GMT

jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
>With the exception of the Gay Olympics quote, all of the following
>are from _Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual_, 
>published by Bantam Books.

I'm not sure where this came from.  It was passed to me by a friend.

If Michelangelo were a heterosexual the Sistine Chapel would have
been painted basic white and with a roller.
-- Rita Mae Brown

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This signature is not Politically Correct, just differently worded!
From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: A comment regarding pedants (was A quotation regarding "quotes")
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:11:49 GMT
	<1992Dec21.095407.18752@husc3.harvard.edu>
	<1992Dec21.201712.24553@news.media.mit.edu>
Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 20:17:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.201712.24553@news.media.mit.edu> paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Paul Dworkin) writes:

   >In article <1992Dec21.095407.18752@husc3.harvard.edu> rice@scws3.harvard.edu (Ken Rice) writes:
   >
   >>Isn't there more to this quote?  
   >
   >'Quote!  Quote!  Young man, the barbarians are hammering
   > at the gates of our civilization, and you stand there
   > saying "quote" when you mean "quotation." '


   "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

	   -- H.D. Thoreau


You sure you don't mean Emerson?
--
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      to resist the temptation to laugh uncontrollably.  Amen." -- Rob T
From: haavardf@gluon.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Woody Allen
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:42:23 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?  In that case, I
definitely overpaid for my carpet. 

Why does man kill?  He kills for food.  And not only food: frequently
there must be a beverage. 

When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into
the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Don't knock masturbation --- it's sex with someone I love.




H}vard Fosseng
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From: kencham@pico.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Would this qualify ?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:46:42 GMT

Some SNLs back, this piece was part of the SNL _Deep Thoughts_ :

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, 
they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas
with some good ideas.

Wonder if that would qualify as a quotATION :-)

\deepak
-- 
Kenchammana-Hosekotan aujourd'hui, demain, et tout les annee prochain.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 16:29:45 GMT
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Subject: Re: Blues Quotes
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
Keywords: 


I've missed the first part of this thread, so maybe this has already
been posted, but my favorite is:

	Nobody loves me but my mother,
	And she could be jovin' too.

			-- B. B. King

-- 
Geoff Allen          \  Driggs, Idaho -- cultural hub of the west!
uunet!pmafire!geoff   \
geoff@pauling.inel.gov \  (Tom Harper in rec.skiing)
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From: michaels@psg.com (Michael Sandy)
Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws and other laws [long]
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:06:49 GMT

"The most effective instrument for finding broken glass on a kitchen
floor is a bare foot." -- Me, shortly after breaking a glass on the
kitchen floor.


-- 
Michael Sandy
michaels@m2xenix.psg.com
"No Blood for Oil!" ?  But Blood is a renewable resource, Oil isn't!
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman)
Subject: Re: Victory quote
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 05:26:48 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Dec31.200116.18725@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> tobis@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:
>In article <Dec30.203123.42317@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman) writes:
>|> In the 1984 Summer Olympics, a runner (maybe in the 10000 Km?) had
>                                                       ^^^^^^^^
>|> trouble with dehydration and was nearly disabled during the race.
>
>I'm not surprised, really. I'm usually pretty run down after the first
>five or six thousand kilometers myself.
>
>mt
>

Yeah, I guess that would be a rather grueling race, huh?

Jeff
From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
Date: 30 Dec 92 00:52:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Quoth [mike contento]:

>Hmmm, this IS alt.quotations is it not ? Those WERE quotations were
>they not? Oh, I see, quotations about the devil are OK, but those
>about God are not?  Should Woody Allen quotes be taken to the movies
>newsgroup, the Steven Wright quotes to the rec.humor newsgroup, the
>presidential quotes to the alt.politics newsgroup?

Ok, howzis.

		An honest god's the noblest work of man.
					   Samuel Butler

>"He who proselytizes in the cause of unbelief is basically a man in
>need of belief." -- Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer?!  2000 years of Christian literature and he has to get
his .sig from Eric Hoffer?

Bertram Walsh                   | Pereant illi qui, ante nos,
Dep't of Mathematics            | nostra dixerunt!
Rutgers University              |           -- Aelius Donatus 
New Brunswick NJ 08903-2101 USA |    [secundum S. Augustinum]
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:33:08 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Dec22.052836.12309@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
>In article <1h5auqINNi0r@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>>Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?


You believe that there is one God.  Good!  Even the demons believe
that - and shudder.

- James 3:19 (The Bible, New International Version)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Subject: Criminals
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:40:54 GMT

Anyone heard any good quotes from criminals?
Here is one I heard the other day.


"A Clown Can Get Away With Murder"  John Wayne Gacey, Clown & Serial Killer
From: loewenst@cs.rutgers.edu (David Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Fortune Cookie
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:19:44 GMT
	<1992Dec23.220545.4392@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
	<1992Dec24.022012.23600@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Reply-To: loewenst@paul.rutgers.edu
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
In-reply-to: pcrayne@halcyon.com's message of 24 Dec 92 02:20:12 GMT

I've received both of these fortune cookies in actual Chinese
restaurants:

"Give this fortune to the person on your right.  He may pay for your
meal."

"You like Chinese food."

These opinions are shareware.  If you like the product,
please send your $0.02 to
               David Loewenstern
<loewenst@paul.rutgers.edu>||<d.loewenstern@att.com>
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: evorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ed Vorst)
Subject: Irish Blessing
	- Unfortunately, I don't know the originating source, but it is
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:43:35 GMT




	
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			gin joint like this?"
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Hawkeye Pierce on guns (MASH)
From: cvadr009@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 27 Dec 92 18:00:03 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadr009

Here is one od my favorite quotes...

"I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry
forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even
Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun."
  -- Hawkeye from M*A*S*H
 
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: treilly@iastate.edu (Edward C Reilly)
Subject: Re: Thoughts for theocrats
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:28:50 GMT


>|> "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
>|> 		-- Monty Python

>Hmm. Isn't this from Mel Brooks' "History of the World, Part 1"? 

     It may be from the brooks film, but monty pythion did this skit in
the early seventies.  i think the Brooks film came later.

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From: kens@psc.lsa.umich.edu (Ken Small)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:07:27 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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Ken Beal (kbeal@amber) wrote:
: 	"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

: While they >sound< great, they are both grammatically incorrect (or, I am
: reading the wrong thing into them, which could be the case but I doubt it).

It's gramatically fine; your complaint is with its logic.  Sorry to
nitpick, but misuse of the term "grammatically" drives me crazy.  Just
watch.  

-- 
Ken Small kens@umich.edu 
"I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused."  
Consulting and Support Services, University of Michigan
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Max Headroom
Summary: Poetry... 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 18:53:59 GMT

In one of the many versions of "Paranoimia" by Art of Noise, Matt Frewer (as
Max Headroom) has a line - something like:

"Poetry... that'll help... 'Come to me, sweet slumber, and wrap me in your
purple cloak'... hm.  Doesn't even rhyme."

Is this an actual poetry quote, and if so, from what?

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:48:54 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service


[political hooey deleted]
	This reminds me; does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?
Chuck

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From: joneja@pluto.ecn.purdue.edu (Ajay Joneja)
Subject: mental bus error...
Keywords: repartee
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:06:35 GMT



 Can anyone tell me the who "A" and "B" are in the following exchange ?
 My feeble memory instantiated them as Oscar Wilde and Samuel Johnson,
 with OW being (for once) at the receiving end. Can't be, though, since
 the two weren't contemporaries.

 (B had just made a funny remark)
 A: I wish I'd said that !
 B: You will, A, you will.

 ObQuote... graffiti on a pub rest-room wall:

 I wanna screw your mom 
 (and below that)
 Go home, Dad. You're drunk!

--
-------------------- esse quam videri --------------------

Ajay Joneja, School of IE and NSF ERC,
Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: e_dessu@pavo.concordia.ca (dez)
Subject: Quotes about God (was Quotes about the Devil)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Concordia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:32:00 GMT


"The boss?"  Woody hesitated.  "You mean--"
"Numero Uno," Milt corroborated with a bright smile.  "But most of the clowns
Topside don't know it.  He keeps a a very low profile.  He's a cool guy, very
laid-back...First time I saw Him,  I though He was some shlub from California."

Parke Godwin
_Waiting For The Galactic Bus_
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From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:55:56 GMT

In article <treilly.725831641@vincent1.iastate.edu> treilly@iastate.edu (Edward C Reilly) writes:
>In <1992Dec31.174412.20470@news.acns.nwu.edu> mknapp@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Knapp) writes:
>
>>     Now that there have been a great number of quotes by Dorothy Parker
>>posted, could somebody please tell me who she is?
>
>     She was a writer from the 20's through the 50's.  One of the
>founders of New Yorker; Drama critic, short story, verse and
>screenplay writer.  Known for her cutting wit, and being especially
>tough as a book and drama reviewer.  She wrote reviews under the name
>"Constant Reader" in the New Yorker in the aforementioned years.  Died in 1967.

Her one-line review of a Winnie the Pooh book:

Tonstant Weader fwow up.


*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
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Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
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From: ttonchev@athena.mit.edu (Theodore G Tonchev)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti  
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:09:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.043014.21315@news.stolaf.edu>, zimmer@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Wiseguy) writes:
|> I recently saw this fine piece of bathroom graphiti when visiting a public
|> restroom:
|> 
|> 	"God is dead!"
|> 		-Nietzsche
|> 
|> 	"Nietzsche is dead!"
|> 		-GOD
|> 
|> Anybody else seen any good graphiti?
|> 
|> -pete 

The full version of the graphiti above (if it is one originally) seems to be the
following (found in a 'fortune' program):

	God is Dead
        	        -- Nietzsche
	Nietzsche is Dead
       		        -- God
	Nietzsche is God
        	        -- The Dead


Another graphiti with unknown origin:

	I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.

-teo
From: mt@media.mit.edu (Michael Travers)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Jazz Quotes:  Mingus
Date: 26 Dec 92 17:30:21 GMT
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.  The reason
it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

	--Charles Mingus
--

Michael Travers / MIT Media Lab / mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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From: duncan@mpr.ca (Nick Duncan)
Subject: a pesky quote
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:41:30 GMT


Who said: "An unexamined life is not worth living." ???

This has been bugging me for a while.
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From: charles@capmkt.COM (Charles Neveu)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
Keywords: paradox quote
Date: 1 Jan 93 01:14:56 GMT
Organization: Capital Market Technology

batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988) writes:
>[...] I have also heard this principle expressed as:
> For each profound true statement, there is a corresponding opposite profound
>statement, which is also true.

I've heard it this way:
The opposite of truth is falsity, but the opposite of a great truth is another
great truth.

cfn

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From: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Jan Steinman - Bytesmiths, 3946)
Subject: Re: Simple one
Reply-To: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:37:43 GMT

>Does anyone know the quotation to the effect that explanations
>should be made as simple as possible but no simpler?

I've seen a poster that attributes this te Albert Einstein.

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind,
 Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:45:46 GMT


In article <1992Dec31.163532.21610@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
> 
> And an atheist philosopher, but I forget which (Descartes? Voltaire? Hegel?)
> 
> 	"Dieu me pardonnera.  C'est son mtier"
> 	(God will forgive me.  It's his profession)

Are you quite sure?  My references tag this to be something the Empress
Catherine the Great said (I don't think these were her last words, though):

"I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade.  And the good Lord will forgive me:
that's his."

There goes a secure person who's "happy-to-be-me." :-)

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>