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    j2k4's Avatar en(un)lightened
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    I think we all have some favorites; I know I have a bunch.

    Here is one which is, some might say, typical of me, although I attribute it to William F. Buckley, Jr.:

    A society that seduces the conscience by sweet reason is one thing, but ours is developing into a society that harpoons the conscience and tows it right into the maws of the mother vessel, there to be macerated and stuffed into a faceless can."

    How about some others? I have many more.......
    "Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."

    -Mark Twain

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    Indeed

    "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in" is a favourite of mine.

    A close second is

    "Whoever said change is inevitable doesn't use our office vending machine"

    I think the first is Gramsci and I suspect the latter is Dilbert.

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    Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum


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    Biggles-

    That first is universal, eh?

    Well done.
    "Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."

    -Mark Twain

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    look to the left, under my avatar, thats from Stalin.

    And Look under my sig, Stalin aswell.

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    If at first you don't succeed, skydiving really isn't for you.


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    "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

    Dorothy Parker, my current favorite source of pithy sayings.
    "I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg

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    J2K4

    Yes, I usually find that after the first flush of enthusiasm it is a law that kicks in with monotonous regularity.

    Noname

    The one under your avatar always made my blood run cold - not least because it was demonstrably true.
    Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum


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