HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988)
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
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Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:56:00 GMT

In article <1h7k8dINNrij@travis.csd.harris.com>, kbeal@amber (Ken Beal) writes...
>Roger Phillips (roger@quantime.co.uk) wrote:
>: In article <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
>: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
>: > does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
>: > the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?
>: 
>: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
>: -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
>:    Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)
> 
>I'd like to take exception to this, as well as Asimov's quote from his
>_Foundation_ series that:
> 
>	"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).
> 
>If X was the "last refuge" of Y, then wouldn't it make sense that Y would
>try >everything else< before trying X?  I.e. it is their "last resort," as
>it were?  This would be giving Y much more credit than Y deserves (i.e.
>the quotes are trying to show that Y is wrong/a fool/an idiot, and my
>grammatical interpretation of them shows that Y will exhaust all options
>before trying X).

I believe that was the sense of Johnson's statement, i.e., scoundrels try
every way to take advantage of everybody else, but if those means fail, they
mouth patriotic proclamations and/or become politicians -- an especially
deceitful way to get rich while appearing to spread healthy pride in their
nation.  A scoundrel like Joseph McCarthy could wield sweeping malevolent
power by claiming his witch hunts were motivated by love of the nation.

> 
>It would be much better worded "X is the first refuge of Y", would it not?
> 
>Just a thought.
>--
>Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.  kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com ...
>  <more interesting .sig deleted>
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From: jmatthews@uswest.com
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti  
Reply-To: Re: Bathroom Graphiti 
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:08:36 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?
>
Here's my all-time favorite, on a stall door in the bathroom of The Loft in
Kent, Ohio <-In case anyone wants to see if it's still there. =)

"Eve was framed."
			-Author unknown


________________________________________________________________
jaye matthews				U S WEST doesn't know i have
jmatthews@uswest.com			an opinion.
From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Who said THIS one?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:49:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


   This may be old, but I'd like to know who said the following (and have
some evidence to back up the assertion):

   "There are no failures of talent, only failures of character."

Thanks...

		-EMeyer

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From: rrulli@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Rebecca Rulli)
Subject: Re: Shakespearean Quotations: Do you fancy a few?
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:04:41 GMT


"Oh, the tangled webs we weave"

Shakespeare
(not sure from which although although I constantly quote it)

Rebecca
From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Shaw on love
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:36:30
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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    There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

    	    	-- G.B. Shaw, "Man and Supperman"


(Yes, the typo is deliberate.)
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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Letterman
Summary: That most quotable of talk show hosts... 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 07:04:17 GMT

"How to lose weight without diet or exercise... gee, that pretty much leaves
disease..."  - Letterman, standup routine circa 1976

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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From: amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Andrew Dunn)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Oh, lighten up!
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:25:10 GMT
Reply-To: amd@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Some misquotes have their value,

	Good night sweet prince.
	May flights of angels string
	thee to thy vest.

		- not quite Shakespeare
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From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Rita Mae Brown
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:04:18 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

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.

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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than 
no inspiration at all. - Rita Mae Brown

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting 
and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls. - Rita Mae Brown

Confession is not necessarily communication. - Rita Mae Brown

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have 
courage. - Rita Mae Brown

I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in 
power, does that diminish you? - Rita Mae Brown

Morals are private. Decency is public.  - Rita Mae Brown

Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.  - Rita Mae Brown

Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or 
brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch. 
- Rita Mae Brown

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No 
government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The
only queer people are those who don't love anybody. 
- Rita Mae Brown of the Gay Olympics, 1982

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? 
Aren't we? Damned if I know.  - Rita Mae Brown
From: f35437c@saha.hut.fi (Aki Taskinen)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:14:23 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

>This says it all:
>	"I don't feel so good."	
>				Last words of Luther Burbank

Perhaps. :) How about this one:

	"I'm alive!"
				Last words of Aleksis Kivi
From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Life
Summary: A maxim
Keywords: wisdom
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:34:00 GMT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I coined the following maxim in 1974:

     True wisdom is knowing when to compromise your principles.
                                                     - David Batchelor
Comments welcome at address below.
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From: ahmad@ra.cs.umb.edu (Ahmad Hashem)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Russell on philosophy
Date: 24 Dec 92 02:30:58 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


  "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to
   seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no 
   one will believe it."

         --Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"
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From: aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: Explain this group
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:09:49 GMT
Reply-To: Arlie Davis <aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Organization: University of Louisville

In <1992Dec21.194238.18767@husc3.harvard.edu> kubo@boucher.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo) writes:

> 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.

And how did those tracks get there?  Correct -- someone looking for tracks.  :)

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From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988)
Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law?
Summary:  Sturgeon wrote at least 1 ST episode
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Keywords:  Sturgeon
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:44:00 GMT

In article <canright.725815468@convex.com>, canright@convex.com (Robert Canright) writes...
>In <1992Dec30.221850.29266@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Charles Geyer) writes:
> ... <quoted anecdote deleted>...
>The story I heard was that Sturgeon was criticized for writing a Star Trek
>episode.  He was told that TV is crap & he responded "90%...."
> 
>Does anyone know if Sturgeon truly wrote a Star Trek episode?  Which one?

I believe he wrote "Amok Time", the episode wherein Spock succumbs to the
irresistible Vulcan mating urge.  (I may have the title wrong.)

])ave
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Blues Quotes
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:44:21 GMT



My woman she done left me
    My children left me too
My mule done kicked my kidneys
    And my income tax is due.

	-- Dave Barry, "Music To Get Rich By"

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

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From: Anu.Kapoor@launchpad.unc.edu (Anu Kapoor)
Subject: Re: Discretion
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:59:19 GMT

In article <21DEC199209383451@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika (Asst. Lab Supervisor)) writes...
>>"Discretion is the better part of valor."
>> 
>>Isn't there more to this quote?  And who is it?  I want to say Cicero, but
>>that seems more like a wild stab than anything.
>> 
>The correct quote is "The better part of valor is discretion", and I 
>believe it is from Shakespeare (Hamlet, I think....).
>
>Rich Isaacman


Sir Jack Falstaff, Henry IV pt 1.
Act II or II I believe.

Cordially,
Anu Kapoor

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From: szjacczk@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Three quotes
Date: 4 Jan 93 05:26:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

To be is to do.
-Immanuel Kant

To do is to be.
-Sigmund Freud

Dooby, dooby, do.
-Frank Sinatra


nj
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Anomaly ?
Date: 31 Dec 92 21:14:27 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

In article <kencham.725768207@centi>, kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 
|> I have often heard "There are TWO sides of a coin". I never understood
|> why :-) Afterall, THERE IS a finite probability that it will land on 
|> the 3rd. side.
|> 
|> Perhaps, that axiom can help formulate another _Murphy's law_ :
|> 
|> Murphy's law on Comedy Films :
|> 
|> If a coin is tossed, it will land on its 3rd. side.
|> 
|> Comments ?

I've heard somelike this before, and as a M Law  (my memory says)



Michael
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pen, sit down, and write it as
it occurs to you. The writing is easy - it's the occurring that is
hard.
<Stephen Leacock>
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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Summary: attributions stink 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 01:55:21 GMT

I honestly can't remember if I heard this on the TV show Sledge Hammer or if
I made it up myself - but

"If at first you don't succeed - reload."

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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Subject: What is...
From: adcrumpler@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:49:37 GMT
Organization: Inmos Limited
Nntp-Posting-User: netnonpriv

Excuse my ignorance but just what is MST3K ?......

Thanks and Happy New Year.....

Stan The Man.
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From: wrowe@reed.edu ( )
Subject: Re: The doom is here!
Keywords: Kris V
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:12:57 GMT

--> "The sky may fall on your head tomorrow,
-->  But tomorrow never comes"
-->         - Chief Vitalstatix in Asterix comics.


Don't forget:




"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."

				-- The Doors

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From: petitc@nuge111.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: beat this one...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:12:28 GMT

Robert.Scott@newcastle.ac.uk (Robert Scott) writes:


>      'It is Man's true business in this world to
>       discover his real Self and to ascertain his
>       relationship to the surrounding Cosmos.
>       His mind will then shine with the Secret glory
>       of human nature and his life will come
>       into harmony with the Cosmic order and beauty.'

  Ok...

 "The truest, most everlasting beauty, is that which is privately owned, and
shared with nobody else in the world.  Its rarity is its uniqueness and makes
it even the more precious"  -- me :&)


-- 
Cat Owner/Passionate Romantic/Poet/Singer/Dreamer/Philosopher...
That's me!  Modest?  Sometimes.  Crazy?  BETTER BELIEVE IT!! :&)
"The greatest beauty in the world is beauty that is private."
"Protect endangered species!  Contribute to the Exxon Supporter's Fund!"
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Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
From: mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento)
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:35:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same people. 
                                                      - G.K. Chesterton

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom
of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it
without running on rocks or bars.                   - Henry Ward Beecher


A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
                                                     - Theodore Roosevelt

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on
prospering.                                              - Daniel Webster

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because
you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and
your own duty.                                           - Woodrow Wilson
-- 

[mike contento] There can be no surer sign of decay in a country
[univ.of pgh. ] than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
[mpc+@pitt.edu]               - Niccolo Machiavelli  (1469-1527)
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From: daveo@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (daveo)
Subject: Re: Fortune Cookie
Organization: UMRK
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:13:45 GMT

Favorite fortune cookie saying:

	"Hell is paved with good intentions."

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From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: History (was: a paradox)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 16:27:26 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
						- George Santayana

Chua
+==+
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
						- Josh Billings
From: nixon@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Tranholm)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Prime Minister Quote
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:53:39 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark


Hi Folks !

I like your <Presidental> quotes>

Here is a quote from the Danish Prime Minister:

 "There is nothing under the carpet"

 He said that under a governmental scandal about the Tamils

   /Soren

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From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: Re: My Chess .sig
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:02:09 GMT

In article <Bzxo7q.H9D@sun2.iend.wau.nl> vlinders@rcl.wau.nl writes:
>[quotation from Dan Cortez, MTV Sports]
>     _
>   _| |_
>  |_ + _|   M\/M
>  __| |__   M  Meindert de Jong
> ( . . . )
>  \_____/   Voice: (+31) 8370 21937
>  [_____]   Vlinders@RCL.WAU.NL
>    l l    
>   / - \  "In order to win you must cheat.
>  / --- \ If you lose; Hell start a fight!"
>-{-------}+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


"Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."  
                            Jesse "The Body" Ventura
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From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Sam Goldwyn - was Re: Prime Minister Quote
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:27:42 GMT

briganti@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Joe Briganti) writes:

>pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote in <1993Jan3.220318.8767@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
>>
>>  "This verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on"

>This is in fact a Goldwynism. I understand Sam Goldwyn (of MGM
>Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) originally said this and other great quotes that
>someone might like to start in a new thread. Unless of course Goldwyn
>was once Prime Minister of New Zealand (could be!)  :-0

Here's my list of Goldwyn quotes... 
 
"A Hospital is no place to be sick."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
                -- Goldwyn's Law of Contracts

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after
 they're dead."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"Let's have some new cliches."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't want any yes-men around me.  I want everybody to tell me the
truth even if it costs them their jobs."
                -- Samuel Goldwyn


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From: slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: beat this one...
Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:12:10 GMT
Organization: Bat Radar Studies, UC Berkeley
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
 mind to correlate all its contents.  We live on a placid island of ignorance
 in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should
 voyage far.  The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto 
 harmed us little;  but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge
 will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position
 therein, that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the
 deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

		-H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"


-Shelley Louie
Digital is illusion. Life is analog.
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From: ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig))
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:05:44 GMT
Organization: BadgerCom Industries

In alt.quotation, chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?

"It's better to rule in hell than serve in heaven"
  -- Milton, "Paradise Lost"


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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: My fave quote for the '90s
Summary: Fuck the summary
Keywords: Gore Vidal quote Generation X
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:38:02 GMT

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

--Gore Vidal

--
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kieran@mindvox.phantom.com
New York by choice...New York University by mistake.

Al Roker is God.