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From: treilly@iastate.edu (Edward C Reilly)
Subject: Re: a pesky quote
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:09:46 GMT

In <C0DqGK.AID@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina) writes:

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

>Several people identified this as Plato. Don't forget the corollary,
>from psychiatrist Sheldon Kopp: "The unlived life is not worth examining."

     Actually , Socrates, Plato's teacher, said the original.  Another
addendum from, i think, Sartre, was  "The over-examined life ain't worth
living either"

Ted.
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From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: Simpson's Quotes
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:00:42 GMT


Just a few from a great source.

"Beer!  Now there's a temporary solution."
				Homer

"When will I learn?  The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a
	bottle.  They're on TV."
			Homer

"Stay away from that jazz man, Lisa.  Nothing personal, I just fear the
	unfamiliar."
		Marge

"Krusty has small feet.  Like all good-hearted people."
			Bart

"A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center."
				Homer

"Ya' know, Mo, my mom once said something that really stuck with me.  She
	said 'Homer, your a big disappointment' and God bless her soul,
	she was really onto something."
				Homer

"Dear advertisers: I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted on
	television.  We are not all vibrant, fun-loving sex maniacs.  Some
	of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old
	days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive."
				Grandpa

"It's almost like having a fifth sense or something."
				Homer


Steve
From: prichard@devon.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Anti-smoking Anti-gun Quotes?
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:42:58
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
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In-reply-to: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:38:46 GMT


 jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump) writes:

   1993Jan8.165130.22367@crd.ge.com> burdick@frostbite.crd.ge.com (William E. Burdick KWC-1623 5585) writes:
   blah blah
   >
   >"Guns don't kill people; people kill people."
   >
   >Now apply to smoking:
   >
   >"Cigarettes don't cause lung cancer; lungs do."
   >
   >
   >Hey, I think we got a winner here!
   >
   >Bill Burdick
   >

   This is an inaccurate paralellism and a cheap shot on the NRA. The
   correct phrase should read:

   "Cigarettes don't cause lung cancer in people; people do (by smoking them)."

how about, "cars don't kill people, drunk drivers kill people."  everyone
would agree with that, to ensure that their car isn't taken away.  its the old
"you can f**k with his rights, as long as you don't f**k with mine"
attitude.  equivalent to the one about when they came for the Jews...

or how about, "bugs don't prevent me from getting good service from my RS/6000,
AIX prevents me from getting good service from my RS/6000." ;)

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From: v091n6fu@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Lisa K Alessi)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Irish blessing
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:14:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan4.211216.13907@midway.uchicago.edu>, djb6@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
> 
>>In article <1h7heuINNrmn@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>>>Does anyone know the complete sequence for the Irish blessing that begins
>>>"May the road rise up to meet you.. etc.?"
> 
>My favorite version ends with the line
>"And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
>-- 
>Dennis Brennan
>djb6@midway.uchicago.edu

I know it very well...it was the text of my high school choir director's
favorite piece.  It was:
		"May the road rise to meet you
                May the wind be always at your back
		The sunshine warm upon your face
		The rains fall soft upon your fields
		And until we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his
			hand
		(May the Lord bless you and keep you 
		May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you and give you
			peace) <--(I think these lines were added by the
composer, but the first few are the true text.)



---Lisa (aka Ariana)
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Need some source
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:05:30 GMT

I have some quotes I need some sources for...  Some of these are
approximate (even more fun!), so if anything looks even mildly
familiar, speak up!  I've already run about 80 by Bartlett's and other
sources, these are the ones I can't find.


Fat, and scant of breath.
Give us the foils, come on!
(Both of these have got to be from Hamlet, but where? (Act, scene, line))

Publish and be damned!

Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni ([loosely] The gods liked
the winners' cause [literally: the winning cause], but Cato [the
elder, presumably] [preferred] the losers'.)

Fluctuat nec mergitur (It is swayed by waves but does not sink. )
(Motto of the city of Paris?)

Sol lucet omnibus (the sun shines for everyone).

O tempora! O mores!  (O the times!  O the morals!)

Bis repetita non placent (things repeated don't please)

Et nunic, reges intelligite... erudimini qui judicatis terram (And
now, kings, please understand... [or: understand the kings, depending
on whom the speaker is addressing] Learn [literally: be taught], you
who judge the earth.)

Maior e longinquo reverentia (Greater is the respect [that comes] from
a long time ago.)

Vinum et musica laetificant cor (Wine and music make the heart merry.)

De mortuis nil nisi bonum (About the dead [say] nothing but good.)

Uti, non abuti (Use, don't abuse).

Contraria contrariis curantur (The opposites are cured by their 
opposites.)

Quot capita, tot sensus (So many heads, so many opinions).

Gloria victis (Glory to the vanquished).

-- 
Oregonians don't tan, they rust.
From: velo@sicsun.epfl.ch (Martin Ouwehand EPFL-SIC/SE)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Television (was Re: Simpson's Quotes)
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:53:01 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

In article <1ie030INN779@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1993Jan6.030943.17506@fcom.cc.utah.edu> BUDNICK@CC.UTAH.EDU (PETER MATTHEW BUDNICK) writes:
|> >"Philo T. Farnsworth, commonly known as the father of television, was born
|> >in Beaver, Utah, grew up in Idaho and attended Brigham Young Universtiy for
|> >two years.  At the age of 21, he transmitted and received the first 
|> >television image in 1927."
|> Well I could send everyone to electronic history books for the full story;
|> but what Farnsworth accomplished was the first all-electronic television
|> image.  There were earlier televisions based on scanning the image with
|> a rotating disk containing a spiral arrangement of holes, or lenses.
|> The names of Baird (already mentioned by somebody) and Nipkow come to mind.
|> 
|> As with a lot of inventions it's hard to say that any one person was the
|> real and only inventor.  The technology evolved over a period of time with
|> a lot of inventions by a lot of people.

What about Zworisky (spelling ? He usually is the last guy mentionned in
encyclopaedias) : what did he do ?

--
Martin
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From: jcc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeremy Caplan)
Subject: Rand
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:15:53 GMT

Awesome quote:

"There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold
only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-- the conviction
that IDEAS MATTER.  In one's youth that conviction is experienced as a
self-evident absolute, and one is unable fully to believe that there are people
who do not share it.  That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that
truth matters, that one's mind matters.  And the radiance of that certainty,
in the process of growing up, is the best aspect of youth."  Ayn Rand

Jer
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From: rdawes@cs.sfu.ca (Robin Dawes)
Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes quote ....
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:38:52 GMT

Who can provide an attribution for the following Holmes variation:

"Once you have eliminated the truth, whatever remains, however probable,
must be impossible"


Thanks in advance

Robin
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From: torenvl@ecf.toronto.edu (TORENVLIET GERARD LAWRENS)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti 
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:44:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.172213.28296@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ematias@csri.toronto.edu (Ummm... me!) writes:
>
>   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."
>
Mark, have you visited Robarts lately.  There it has one similar, but far more
pertinent and funny (again, above the toilet tissue roll):

	Arts and Science Diplomas -- please take one 
 

_____________________________________________________________________
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From: joleary@ESTERH (John O'Leary)
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
Reply-To: JOLEARY@ESTWM0.DNET.ESTEC.ESA.NL
Organization: European Space Agency (ESTEC)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:14:58 GMT

In article <NS14.93Jan2161848@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu>, ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers) writes:
>
>	Uh Oh  - The last words from the Shuttle Challenger's crew.

Wasn't it  "Who let that f***ing woman drive?"
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From: rgh@unislc.uucp (Rich Hannon)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Reply-To: rgh@unislc.UUCP (Rich Hannon,D1Z01,6628)
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:35:23 GMT

In article <treilly.725753308@vincent1.iastate.edu> treilly@iastate.edu (Edward C Reilly) writes:
>more Dorothy Parker Quotes:
>

She is reputed to have named her parakeet Onan, because he was always
spilling his seed.

-- 
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From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Wanted: Cool Einstein-quotes...
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:47:25 GMT
 <ian.726205071@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu><1993Jan5.051618.13915@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu><1993Jan5.151850.11599@burrhus.harvard.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: glazier@isr.harvard.edu's message of Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:18:50 GMT

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt.  He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice.  This disgrace to civilization should be 
done away with at once.  Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable
patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is;
I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!  It is 
my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of 
murder."

--
-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." -J. Handey
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] SED")
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Astrid Lindgren
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:13:30 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom


	    Jag heter Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta
	Efraimsdotter Langstrump, dotter till kapten Efraim Langstrump,
	fordom havens skrack, numera negerkung.


--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Still More Douglas Adams (was Re: The Big Apple)
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:06:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>This won't answer the original question.  From _Mostly Harmless_ comes the
>following:
>
>	The last time anybody made a list of the top 100 character
>	attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
>
>No offense intended to New Yorkers.  I just liked the way the quote sounds.
>
And (paraphrase) "If you want to breathe clean air in New York, your best
bet is to open a window and stick your head inside."

-- 
"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.
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From: michaels@psg.com (Michael Sandy)
Subject: Re: The Sun Never Sets
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:56:44 GMT

For Space Station Freedom, if it is ever built:

"Tomorrow is always less than 90 minutes away."


-- 
Michael Sandy
michaels@m2xenix.psg.com
"I resolve to make no non-tautological New Year's Resolutions!"
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Einstein & Hawking: clarification
Keywords: Einstein, Quotes
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:15:02 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <ian.726205071@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> ian@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Xiphias Gladius) writes:
>	God does not play dice with the Universe.
 I posted this before, with a counterstatement by Stephen Hawking (author,"
A Brief History of Time") The quotes were right, but the context wasn't 
The Einstein quote refers to the fact that it is physically impossible to
know the position and velocity of an electron at the same time, and that
the degree of certainty with which one knows one inversely affect the
certainty possible in knowing the other. This is called the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle, and is a refutation of the feasibility of the 
 Scientific Determinist position, which held that if you knew the current
state of the Universe (the position and direction of every particle
(including electrons)) it would be possible to predict the entire future of
the Universe.

-- 
"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.
From: gal@calliope.uucp (Gal Kaplan)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Albert Camus quote
Keywords: help
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:16:10 GMT
Organization: Harvard University

I'm trying to find a more precise attribution (which novel or essay)
to the following quote, attributed to the French author Albert Camus:

	"All I need to know about cooperation, I learned
         playing soccer."

(this may not be an exact quote, and he probably said it in French anyway.)

Thanks for any ideas!
	
	~~~
	~~~ Gal 					gal@das.harvard.edu
	~~~
From: sachs@tanner.berkeley.edu (Rainer Sachs)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Who said this???
Date: 9 Jan 1993 04:28:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1993Jan9.010957.22452@athena.mit.edu> dks@athena.mit.edu (dks) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.222511.3831@oar.net>,
>tga@oar.net (Germann Associates) writes:
>>I seem to recall a quote attributed to one of the Kennedy boys that goes
>>something like this:
>>"Some people look at a difficult situation and say 'why?'.  Achievers look
>>at the same situation and say 'Why not?'."
>>
>>Sorry for mangling it so bad, but could someone ID who said it and what the
>>true text of it is?
>
>
>     Some men see things as they are and say "Why?"
>     I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
>
>                          -- Robert Francis Kennedy
>
>
>As for who _wrote_ it, we shall never know.

If memeory serves:
Shaw wrote it.
The snake, in "Back to Methuselah" said it.











Of course, Kennedy being Irish, 
he is equivalent to Shaw.
Ob quote:"Evolution: a lousy method, but it is the Law".
From: tdober@llnl.gov (TDO)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Need some source
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:45:53 GMT
Followup-To: alt.quotations
Organization: llnl

In article <rdippold.726249930@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron
Dippold) wrote:
> 
> I have some quotes I need some sources for...  Some of these are
> approximate (even more fun!), so if anything looks even mildly
> familiar, speak up!  I've already run about 80 by Bartlett's and other
> sources, these are the ones I can't find.

Nope, sorry, I don't have any answers; I have another question. I would
love it if someone could tell me who wrote the following:

Buzz off, banana nose! Relieve mine eyes
  Of hateful soreness; purge mine ears of corn.
Less dear than army ants in apple pies
  Art thou, old pruneface, with thy chestnuts worn
Dropt from thy peeling lips like lousy fruit.
  Like the honey bee upon the perfum'd rose
They suck, and like the double-breated suit
  Are out of date. Therefore, banana nose,
Go fly a kite, thy welcome's overstayed.
  And stem the produce of thy waspish wits;
Thy logick, like thy locks, is disarrayed,
  Thy cheer, like thy complexion, is the pits.

Begone, I say, go bug somebody new.
Scram, beat it, get thee hence, and nuts to you.


For the more observant among you, yes, it's actually a sonnet! I got this
as my fortune one morning on a UNIX system, but have never been able to
track it down. Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.


TDO
--
#include "StdDisclaimer.h"

Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious
moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? -- Lois McMaster
Bujold, _Barrayar_
From: ahmad@ra.cs.umb.edu (Ahmad Hashem)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Famous Last Words???
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:11:56 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

When Hegel was lying on his deathbed, he said: "Only one man has understood 
me," but shortly afterwards he added fretfully: "And even he did not 
understand me."
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From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Subject: Whosaidit: Stone walls do not a prison make...
Reply-To: djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:32:23 GMT

The quote used to appear on Bugs Bunny cartoons back when I was but a wee lad:

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."

I don't imagine that Mel Blanc said this first.  Who was it?


-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: jakem@hayden.corp.sgi.com (Jake McGowan)
Subject: Re: Money ..
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:20:47 GMT


> Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen said (wrote?) this.


Here's another: 

If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

                                               --Benjamin Franklin


--Jake--
From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Three quotes
Date: 8 Jan 93 00:44:55 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>	"Nietsche is Pietsche." 
>		  --Ogden Nash

	"but Sarter is smarter"
		  -- ?

Same attribution?

Bertram Walsh                   | "I enjoy all singing, but par-
Dep't of Mathematics            | ticularly songs which are old."  
Rutgers University              |                      -- Apollo
New Brunswick NJ 08903/USA      |           (at Didyma, 3rd c AD)
From: toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (prufrock)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Laurie Anderson
Date: 10 Jan 93 04:02:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia

"You know, for every dollar a man makes
A woman makes 63 cents.
Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.
So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888
Before we make a buck."
	(from "Beautiful Red Dress" on _Strange Angels_)

"History is an angel
Being blown backward into the future.
...History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things,
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel
backwards into the future.
And this storm, this storm
is called
Progress.
	(from "The Dream Before" on _Strange Angels_)


prufrock (toj8j@fermi.clas.virginia.edu)
Still .sigless after all these years.
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From: R_WINES@TRZ860 (Rodney Wines)
Subject: Re: > Re: Mel Brooks
Organization: Alcatel STR AG, Switzerland
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:48:06 GMT
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In <MJD.93Jan5131616@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu writes:

> 	Comedy is when I cut it again.
> 
> But really my version seems so apt that I wonder whether someone else
> didn't think of it first, and whether Mel wasn't parodying that.

I don't know if anybody else said it, but I'm not so sure it's apt, or is in
the spirit of the original quote.  The original quote said that tragedy is
misfortune, even minor misfortune, that happens to me, where comedy is
misfortune, even major misfortune, that happens to you.

In "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein, the main character said
that he'd finally "Grok"ed humor.  He said in effect that all humor based on
tragedy.

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