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From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:51:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1212@blue.cis.pitt.edu> mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento) writes:
>>From: georged@meaddata.com (George Dibos)
>
>>There is no surer sign of mental incapacity than someone who embraces
>>wishful thinking as fact...
>>Please take your masturbatory, evangelical crap to one of the groups
>>created for the purpose.  
> 
> 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? 
>
	I think quotes about God are just fine.  Here are several:
"I think there are innumerable gods.  What we here on earth call God is a 
little tribal God who has made an awful mess.  Certainly forces operating 
trough human conciousness control events."
		-- William S. Buroughs, _Paris Review_, Fall 1965

"I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it."
		-- Virginia Woolf

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
		-- Nietzsche

"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable.
They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority,
soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters."
		-- H.L. Mencken
	In any case, *I* don't think Xtian proselytizers should leave.
But be warned that the opposition is *at least* as well-armed in any "quote
wars".

>[mike contento] "He who proselytizes in the cause of unbelief is 
>[univ. of pgh.]  basically a man in need of belief."
>[mpc+@pitt.edu]                                    - Eric Hoffer
	Um...you *might* want to go back and read "The True Believer" before
you get *too* enthusiastic about quoting Hoffer.....
Chuck

--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: lmj4805@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
Reply-To: lmj4805@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:02:52 GMT

In article <1i57mvINNffi@agate.berkeley.edu>, slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>> stoesser@i31s17.ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>
>"There's no such thing as an non-practicing atheist." 
>	-Unknown...


	"9 out of 10 gods surveyed doubted the existence of athiests"

			-somebody's .sig 
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Re: Quotation source sought. Shakespearean I believe.....
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:18:18 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

amathur@storm.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes: 
| Hi !
| 
| Does anyone know/remember the source for this quotation.
| 
| 	"Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned"
| 
| I think it is Shakespearean but could be mistaken.

You are :-).

It's from "The Mourning Bride" by William Congreve (1670-1729).  The
exact quote is:

"Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
 Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd."

| Thanks,

You're very welcome.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC   |
|cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com                             |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch."      |
|                                   --Lily Tomlin  |
+--------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: briganti@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Joe Briganti)
Subject: Re: Prime Minister Quote
Followup-To: alt.quotations
Reply-To: j.briganti@trl.oz.au (Joe Briganti)
Organization: Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:24:12 GMT

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

--
Joe Briganti ( j.briganti@trl.oz.au )-I'd like to become immortal and then die!
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: anna@psych.toronto.edu (Anna Filippone)
Subject: Re: Oh, lighten up!
Organization: P.S.A. (Psychology Student's Association)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:29:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.183244.10761@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
>Why do most discussions of quotes have to involve the deep and the profound?
>
-- Some really cool quotes deleted here --

Yeah, I agree.  Heard this one the other day by comedian Lean Delarea:

   "I'm not really a lesbian -- it's a career move."


And if someone could help me out with another quote, I'd really appreciate
it.  It was by another comedian, and went something like:

   My Mom always told me that sex was a dirty, ugly, horrible thing that
   I was only to do with someone I loved.

Later!

Anna

-- 
			  "Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
Anna Filippone		   How little that which thou deniest me is: 
anna@psych.toronto.edu 	   Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee,  
			   And in this flea our two bloods mingled be." - Donne
From: fyoung@gssec.bt.co.uk (Fraser Young)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: you can quote me...
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:19:16 GMT
	<1992Dec21.210147.4512@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
Organization: BT Glasgow Systems and Software Engineering Centre, Scotland.

In article <1992Dec21.210147.4512@genie.slhs.udel.edu> nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Nancy Lebovitz) writes:
|>    In article <1992Dec21.151056.1103@hubcap.clemson.edu> hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor) writes:
|>    >  ``I before E, except after C. Is that a sufficiently weird rule for you?''
|>    >
|>    >                                              -Me
|> 
|>    Or......
|> 
|>    I before E except after C, unless it's weird, foreign, or deficient.
|> 

Or...

I before E except after C, albeit either weird, foreign or sufficiently deficient.


--

Fraser Young
From: morin@noao.edu (Meg Morin)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:38:01 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ

In article <1992Dec31.141524.23571@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>Vidi, Vici, Veni
>(I saw, I conquered, I came)

Veni, Vidi, Visa
I came, I saw, I went shopping

-- 
   The Seeker	| I once wanted to save the world ... 
morin@noao.edu	| now I just want to leave the room with some dignity.  
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
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: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:28:17 GMT


"Die, my dear doctor?  That's the last thing I shall do."
				-- Lord Palmerston (attrib.), 1865

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it."
				-- Lytton Strachey (attrib.), 1932

"Either they go, or I do."
		-- Oscar Wilde, of his new bedroom curtains (attrib.), 1900

"Good-bye.  I am leaving because I am bored."
            -- George Saunders' dying words

"Die?  I should say not, dear fellow.  No Barrymore would allow such a
 conventional thing to happen to him."
                                       -- John Barrymore's dying words

"I wish I'd drunk more champagne."
                        -- last words of Lord John Maynard Keynes

"Don't let it end like this.  Tell them I said something."
                                -- Last words of Pancho Villa

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

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Subject: Will Rogers
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:14:45 GMT

Will Rogers has always been one of my favorite people quote.
Even day more than a half a century later his words still ring true.


"A politican is the best man money can buy"



Dale    


Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: I've created a MONSTER! (suggestions for posting)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:56:30 GMT

Welcome to alt.quotations.  Two days after creating the group, I find
there are 126 messages...  It's obviously going to be a high-volume group.
 
As such, I have some proposed guidelines for posts: 
 
PLEASE use an informative subject.  "Here's another one" or "Quotation"
just won't work - I'd prefer something like "Will Rogers on Politics" or
"More Albert Einstein quotes".  Very few of us are going to have the time
to read every single article... 
 
MANY of the posts here are going to be corrections to other posts.  My
suggestion:  include the text (correction) in the Subject: line.  This
will help people like myself who like to know the quote as accurately as
possible, and also those who would rather skip corrections.
 
MOST IMPORTANT:  If you have some doubt as to the exact wording of a
quotation, don't let that stop you from posting - but PLEASE mention that
it may be inaccurate.  Many of us are concerned about such things...
 
There will eventually be a FAQ and an FTP site for quotations, and when
that happens there should be an informal rule to avoid posting quotes that
are already there.  However, for the moment, anything goes. 
 
Thanks for reading this, and thanks to all of you who made alt.quotations
possible.  I'm not in charge - nobody is - but if everyone follows these
suggestions, we can avoid some of the "noise" in this newsgroup.

-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Presidential quote...
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:37:31 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Steffan O'Sullivan (sos@oz.plymouth.edu) wrote:
: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me ... and
: causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.  ...  Corporations
: have been enthroned ... an era of corruption in high places will follow
: ... and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its
: reign by working on the prejudices of the people ... until the wealth
: is aggregated in a few hands  ... and the republic is destroyed."
: 				- A. Lincoln

: "Since the winning of our independence, he who stops the most gullies is
: the greatest patriot."
: 				- T. Jefferson

   Now those are real presidential quotes!  Not like the kind we would get
   from the last few presidents!    :)

   Can you please provide references for these quotes?  I'd especially like
   to know where the Lincoln quote is from (what speech, article, etc...).

   Also, what's are 'gullies'?

   Thanks for your help and great quotes.
From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: On Robert Graves
Date: 23 Dec 92 10:31:01
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: strident.think.com



    It needs no Graves, come from the ghosts, to tell us this.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: ematias@csri.toronto.edu (Ummm... me!)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti 
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:22:13 GMT

In article <BzwLuD.1w6@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
>My favorite bathroom graffitti, from a rest room in one of the many
>buildings at NYU:
>
>In one of the stalls, right above the toilet paper holder:
>
>"Diplomas, Take One"

   Yes, a few of the bathrooms at UofT have similar sayings.  The classic
ongoing campus feud is between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of
Arts & Science (the latter of which I'm a member).  In a bathroom of one of
the Arts&Sci buildings was the message above the toilet paper roll:

"Engineering Degrees -- please take one."


Cheers,

-Mark-
From: kencham@atto.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws and other laws
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:33:07 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

Since I asked the question, I suppose it is necessary to make the 'not-so
-obvious' that I have.

Here goes _Murphy's Laws on Combat_ ,

1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.

2. Incoming fire has the right of way.

3. Don't look conspicuous, it draws fire.

4. There is always a way.

5. The easy way is always mined.

6. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.

7. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

8. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
   a. when you're ready for them.
   b. when you're not ready for them.

9. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.

10. If you can't remember, then the claymore is pointed at you.

11. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.

12. A "sucking chest wound" is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

13. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.

14. Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.

15. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.

16. Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won't be able
	to get out.

17. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.

18. If you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in a combat zone.

19. When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.

20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.


Peace,

\deepak
--
If there is heaven on earth, it is surely in Kenchammana-Hosekote !
From: macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika (Asst. Lab Supervisor))
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Fortune Cookie
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:05:45 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

In article <1h7v2aINNkit@transfer.stratus.com> dennist@sw.stratus.com (Dennis Tetreault) writes:
>My favorite was found on a fortune cookie:
>
>             " Psychics will lead dogs to your grave. "
>

Even better fortune cookie:

	"Ignore previous cookie."

-- 

Dominic Macika

"Imagine"
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Blues Quotes: John Coltrane
Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:29:10 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

Damn the rules! It's the feeling that counts!
					- John Coltrane

Any other good jazz/blues quotes? Can't find them in Bartlett's or Oxfords..

Chua
+==+
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:01:54 GMT
 om><1992Dec23.171854.8076@walter.bellcore.com><1992Dec26.095239.7367@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:52:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.095239.7367@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:

>offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord) writes:
>> -- 
>> Dr. Jim Offord		|Any sufficiently advanced technology
>> Dept. of Biotechnology	|is indistinguishable from magic.
>> Parke-Davis 			|	Arthur Clarke's Third Law
>> offordj@wl.com		|Opinions? Those babies are all mine.
>
>Who was it that came up with the following spin on Clarke's Third Law?
>
>	Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable
>	from technology.
>
>I think it's either Niven or Pournelle....

I've also seen "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from a rigged demo."


--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:38:05 GMT

In article <OLSON.92Dec26110154@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>
>I've also seen "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
>from a rigged demo."
>

How about:
"Any technology distinguisable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

-Pete
pcrayne@halvyon.com
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
From: kubo@widder.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Date: 27 Dec 92 01:37:05 EST
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

>	My mother made me a homosexual
>
>Scrawled under it in different handwriting was:
>
>	If I buy her the wool will she make me one?

Another interchange:
  "fuck your mother!"

  "I don't have a mother.  Me and my dad share yours."
From: haavardf@gluon.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: nietzsche
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:35:07 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

Ich beschw\"ore euch, meine Br\"uder, _bleibt der Erde treu_ und glaubt denen 
nicht, welche euch von \"ubererdischen Hoffnungen reden! Giftmischer sind es, 
ob sie es wissen oder nicht.
	Also Sprach Zarathustra

which will translate into English somewhat along the lines of:

I beseech you, my brothers, _remain faithful to the earth_ and believe not 
those who speak of supernatural hopes. Poisonmongers are they, whether they
know it or not.


H}vard Fosseng
From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: History (was: a paradox)
Date: 22 Dec 92 02:11:47 GMT
Reply-To: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
Organization: Quantime Ltd, London (software for market research)

In article <7249712773575@spatial.eid.anl.gov>,
shugrue@spatial.eid.anl.gov (Leon Shugrue) writes:
> In article <BzMBpA.1y3@ie.utoronto.ca>
> xiao@ie.utoronto.ca (Yan Xiao) writes:
> >	"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history"
> 
> "History will teach us nothing"
>                         - Sting

"What experience and history teach is this - that nations
and governments have never learned anything from history,
or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
-- G. W. F. Hegel

"Hegel says somewhere that all great events and
personalities in world history reappear in one fashion or
another.  He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the
second as farce."
-- Karl Marx

"Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the
second time as farce?  No, that's too grand, too considered
a process.  History just burps, and we taste again that
raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago."
-- Julian Barnes

-- 
Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
"*crib-biting* in horses, a vicious habit of biting the manger, etc.,
and swallowing air" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Syllogism
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:21:06 GMT
 <1992Dec31.043945.4572@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1992Dec31.071704.23595@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Dec31.071704.23595@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
>A longtime favorite of mine:
>
>-----
>
>All syllogisms have three parts.
>
>Therefore this is not a syllogism.
>
>-----
>
True but misleading, becuase a lot of people think that a syllogism is the
same thing as a vaild argument (that's "valid" not "veiled", and vice versa,
 which is not true
-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: lacesso@cs.UAlberta.CA (Winslowe Lacesso)
Subject: Zen eschatalogical quotes
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:21:41 GMT

What's the most popular order at the Zen hotdog stand?
"Make me One With Everything!"


He who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: Einstein
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:22:29 GMT

	The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered
	considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more
	destructive of respect for the government and the law of the
	land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open
	secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is
	closely connected with this.
     		-- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921

Richard Stueven        gak@wrs.com         attmail!gakhaus!gak        107/H/3&4

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: fstawit@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov (Tawit Chitsomboon)
Subject: New Year's Resolution
Originator: fstawit@icomp01
Organization: Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 05:41:26 GMT

My last new year's resolution:

I shall never make a new year's resolution again for i'm bored
of breaking it.


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Happy New Year to all!
May your happinesses grow like the budget deficit.
And your troubles diminish like the hope to get rid of it.

-tawit
From: stanworthdjh@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Dave <Rubicon>)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Marriage - I think not
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:31:26 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk



   "No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and 
       dissected at least one woman."

                                 Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

-- 
.sig deleted due to good taste
From: norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Deep Thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:02:31 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu



	Does anyone have a comprehensive file of Deep
	Thoughts by Jack Handy?  I have a bunch, but it
	includes none of the "newer ones"

	If anyone does could you kindly email it to me?

	Thanks a million in advance...

	Tim


-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Timothy James McInerney    "What's the point! I just don't care anymore!"
(Tim The Lemur)             			       -- Joel
norbert@wpi.wpi.edu        "What lights?"	       -- Jean-Luc Picard
From: sachs@tanner.berkeley.edu (Rainer Sachs)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:56:07 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: tanner.berkeley.edu
Summary: tip of the iceberg

In article <1h5auqINNi0r@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?

If I learned that hell had gone to war with Germany I would at
least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of
Commons -- Churchill, July 1941, referring to Stalin.

This is no time to be making new enemies -- Voltaire (?), asked 
on his deathbed to renounce Satan.

Shaw has lots, especially in the Devil's Disciple and in the
interlude of Man and Superman.
From: sachs@tanner.berkeley.edu (Rainer Sachs)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Progress
Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:17:38 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: tanner.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec23.220004.4150@zip.eecs.umich.edu> macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika (Asst. Lab Supervisor)) writes:
>A reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him,
>while an unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to him.
>Therefore, all progress is caused by unreasonable men.

Shaw for sure

Maybe from a Revolutionist's Handbook in the preface to
man and superman.

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