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Today's quote

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
    --Virgil

Today's aphorists quote

Words may be deeds.
    --Aesop

Today's Jazz quote

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!
    --Art Tatum

Today's funny quote

I got this powdered water -- now I don't know what to add.
    --Steven Wright

Today's philosophers quote

Art is a jealous mistress.
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's witty quote

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
    --Oscar Wilde

Random quotes for Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    --George Bernard Shaw 

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
    --Sir John Fisher 

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
    --Virgil 

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.
    --George W. Bush 

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
    --Erma Bombeck 

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
    --Abraham Lincoln 

What I like about deadlines is the lovely whooshing sound they make as they rush past.
    --Douglas Adams 

Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
    --Bertrand Russell 

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
    --Edward Abbey 

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    --Mark Twain