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2013
January
- 01-01 → New Year greeting and a hug for you all.
- 01-02 → Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
- 01-03 → - Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.
- There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. - 01-04 → The anarchist, the nihilist but can you prove that you exist?
- 01-05 → Do what you want, but don't do it around me.
- 01-06 This is a chord.
This is another.
This is a third.
NOW FORM A BAND! - 01-07 → Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
- 01-08 → Continua messe senescit ager
("By continuous tillage the field is exhausted") - 01-09 → [Crew] wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.
- 01-10 → You can close you eyes and pretend that everything's fine
But sooner or later you'll open your eyes
And reality will strike you blind - 01-11 → Emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.
- 01-12 → Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- 01-13 → The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
- 01-14 → I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69 - 01-15 → When the head is rotten, it affects the whole body.
- 01-16 → You're tearing me apart!
- 01-17 → Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
- 01-18 → A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
- 01-19 → Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
- 01-20 → Ghosts are transparent.
- 01-21 → Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?
- 01-22 → I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking life.
- 01-23 → Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for The Gipper.
- 01-24 → If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- 01-25 → He walked on the track.
And he was surprised to learn how certain he suddenly was of a single fact he could not prove. - 01-26 → This will never do.
- 01-27 → Credo quia absurdum
("I believe because it is absurd") - 01-28 → Do something that's great
Time will never wait
Now's the chance to say
Life is gonna be extraordinary. - 01-29 → There was an old man with a beard…
- 01-30 → I must warn you, you may be shocked at what you are about to hear.
- 01-31 → I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
February
- 02-01 [Citation needed]
- 02-02 → Who soweth good seed shall surely reap;
The year grows rich as it groweth old,
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! - 02-03 → Made it Ma! Top of the world!
- 02-04 → And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you
- 02-05 → The everlasting No.
- 02-06 → Cui bono
("To whose benefit?") - 02-07 → My brother-in-law is Secretary of State.
- 02-08 → The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem.
- 02-09 → When Wikipedia has a server outage, my apparent IQ drops by about 30 points.
- 02-10 → Aber etwas fehlt.
But something's missing. - 02-11 → Cogito ergo sum
"I think, therefore I am" - 02-12 → Be bold, respect others; you'll gradually become versatile, great Wikipedians!
- 02-13 → They thought that one up at West Point.
- 02-14 → Those who have true love known and tried, have every petty want defied.
- 02-15 → I'd love to meet the asshole who invented it.
- 02-16 → Taste not his flesh, but look for harmless food!
- 02-17 → Hello, gorgeous
- 02-18 → Cum grano salis
("With a grain of salt") - 02-19 → I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- 02-20 → Can you smell the irony?
How many attacks have they made? - 02-21 → A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism.
- 02-22 → It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- 02-23 → That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
- 02-24 → Philosophy begins in wonder.
- 02-25 → Keep calm and carry on
- 02-26 → The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
- 02-27 → There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
- 02-28 → You'll all chatter yourselves away into the grave.
March
- 03-01 → Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
- 03-02 → I meant what I said, and I said what I meant; an elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
- 03-03 → Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- 03-04 → In every community, in every nation, people are doing little and big things to help make a better world.
- 03-05 → At three, we run. Three!
- 03-06 → Wikipedia: Now Twenty Percent More Cool
- 03-07 → It is evident that if a man practices a compassionate affection for animals, he is all the more disposed to feel compassion for his fellowmen.
- 03-08 → For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- 03-09 → Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
- 03-10 → Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.
- 03-11 → There's something bloody wrong with our ships today.
- 03-12 → I wanna know, did you get what you came for?
I wanna know, did you leave satisfied? - 03-13 → Seems like he had to look a long time
Before he gathered any answers - 03-14 → I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- 03-15 → London calling but I have no fear
Ms. Ella Fitzgerald got no peer
Music sweet music make the truth so clear
Classics of love make a dark day light
If you don't believe the words just look into their eyes - 03-16 → London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust - 03-17 → The worst is not, so long as we can say 'This is the worst'.
- 03-18 → Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- 03-19 → The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce,
But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use. - 03-20 → Coepisti melius quam desinis
(You began better than you end") - 03-21 → It's not about what you've done, it's what you still have left to do that makes life so much fun.
- 03-22 → Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- 03-23 → 'We should travel and see the world.'
'Okay... How about this?... We walk to the window and look out.' - 03-24 → Look here come your teachers, expecting you to be whatever makes them see themselves the way they wanna be seen.
- 03-25 → Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.
- 03-26 → They can't block out the light in here.
- 03-27 → Mama says stupid is as stupid does.
- 03-28 → No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.
- 03-29 → De minimis non curat lex
("The law does not concern itself with trifles") - 03-30 → Eating shoes for just seven years
- 03-31 → I owe the public nothing.
April
- 04-01 → There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- 04-02 → Feeling lucky punk? Oh, good.
- 04-03 → Look out, listen can you hear it?
Panic in the County Hall. - 04-04 → No fly list. No drive list. No walk list. No talk list.
No muckraking journalist left to take stock of
the wholesale omission of outside perspectives. - 04-05 Put that in your pipe and smoke it
- 04-06 → I read back over things that I wrote three years ago.
- 04-07 → Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour. - 04-08 → The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
- 04-09 → So hold your head up high, forgotten man.
- 04-10 → Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
Very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal - 04-11 → Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- 04-12 → The only thing that's important is random acts of kindness
- 04-13 → If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
- 04-14 → I feel so useless down here with no one to love.
- 04-15 → Cum odio sui coepit veritas
("The first response to truth is with hatred") - 04-16 → As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
- 04-17 → Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
- 04-18 → The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
- 04-19 → Never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
- 04-20 → As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.
- 04-21 → The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
- 04-22 → We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity.
- 04-23 → Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty
- 04-24 → Own brothers: through good repute and ill,
In direst peril true to me,
Leaving all things for me, spending yourself
In the hard service that I taught to you - 04-25 → We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry—
—with out pistols and swords and sticks—
—and rush in upon them,
—and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em! - 04-26 → There's many a man has more hair than wit.
- 04-27 → By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- 04-28 → if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall
- 04-29 → Drama is life with the dull parts left out.
- 04-30 → Get your facts first.
May
- 05-01 → We ought to show them great Using kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
- 05-02 → De mortuis nil nisi bonum
("Of the dead, nothing unless good") - 05-03 → If anything can go wrong, it will.
- 05-04 → I will work harder.
- 05-05 → Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).
- 05-06 → Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
- 05-07 → Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- 05-08 → I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order.
- 05-09 → Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.
("Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens") - 05-10 → If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
- 05-11 → Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- 05-12 → O, 'tis a parlous boy;
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable;
He is all the mother's from the top to toe. - 05-13 → C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
- 05-14 → Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
- 05-15 → Wikipedia has trained us to believe anything followed by little blue numbers in brackets.
- 05-16 → Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. - 05-17 → Deo volente
("God willing") - 05-18 → You can tell by the smile on the CEO, environmental restraints are about to go.
- 05-19 → Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
- 05-20 → With great power comes great responsibility.
- 05-21 → It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking.
- 05-22 → Leave everything a little better than you found it.
- 05-23 → When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!
- 05-24 → Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation.
- 05-25 → Every wall is a door.
- 05-26 → Ambition is our idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing. - 05-27 → Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.
- 05-28 → Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
- 05-29 → Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
- 05-30 → Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.
- 05-31 You will be imprisoned for contributing your time and skill to a bank robbery.
June
- 06-01 → Saluton!
- 06-02 → Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.
- 06-03 → Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.
- 06-04 → In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- 06-05 → You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be.
- 06-06 → Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- 06-07 → It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- 06-08 → It's just as naive to say everyone sucks as it is to think everyone's kind.
- 06-09 → Who's on First
- 06-10 → Dictis facta suppetant
("Let deeds correspond with words") - 06-11 → But see how oft ambition's aims are crossed,
And chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost! - 06-12 → We belong dead.
- 06-13 → Diem perdidi
("I have lost the day") - 06-14 → Why don't you write books people can read?
- 06-15 → Desinas ineptire
("Cease your folly") - 06-16 → My precious.
- 06-17 → Don't hate the media; be the media.
- 06-18 → If you want to know what God thinks about money, look at the people He gave it to.
- 06-19 → How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put things first and act proper?
- 06-20 → O, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise,
By mountains piled on mountains to the skies?
Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. - 06-21 → Difficile est saturam non scribere
("It is hard not to write satire") - 06-22 → Licorice, mmmm. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice.
- 06-23 → We shall be using strong means; resistance is useless!
- 06-24 → The covers of this book are too far apart.
- 06-25 → All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- 06-26 → Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- 06-27 → Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
- 06-28 → With all due respect sir, this is my boat.
- 06-29 → Excuse me, I'm not a category.
- 06-30 → Little boxes, little boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
July
- 07-01 → Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.
- 07-02 → Nuts!
- 07-03 → The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- 07-04 → Ah, les cons!
Ah, the fools! - 07-05 → Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- 07-06 → O sancta simplicitas!
"O holy simplicity!" - 07-07 → His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- 07-08 → The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
- 07-09 → Love's boat has smashed against the daily grind.
- 07-10 → Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere — on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
- 07-11 → Diffugere nives
("The snows have fled") - 07-12 → Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- 07-13 → Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise
By mountains piled on mountains to the skies?
Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. - 07-14 → Another piece of land that just could not be saved
Another education that could not be paid
Another killer in the street is roaming free
Another day, another pain. another misery - 07-15 → You Give Love a Bad Name
- 07-16 → disiecti membra poetae
("limbs of a scattered poet") - 07-17 → Round up the usual suspects.
- 07-18 → Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist.
- 07-19 → Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom
- 07-20 → No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
- 07-21 → Write drunk; edit sober.
- 07-22 → Dis aliter visum
("It seemed otherwise to the gods") - 07-23 → God is love — I dare say. But what a mischievous devil love is!
- 07-24 → But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in. - 07-25 → If a new vocality can exist, it must be lived by all, and not singularly.
- 07-26 → Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask, why not?
- 07-27 → Thought, word and deed once sloganeered, a reaction undefined;
The battle-hymn, the mantra of a once unfocused mind. - 07-28 → For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
- 07-29 → How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
- 07-30 → All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
- 07-31 → It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.
August
- 08-01 → Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
- 08-02 → Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- 08-03 → I love the smell of napalm in the morning…smells like…victory.
- 08-04 → What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- 08-05 → Anger is like
A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him. - 08-06 → Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
("Divine nature gave the fields, human art built the cities") - 08-07 → The last thing I would ever do with it is send it to WikiLeaks.
- 08-08 → The Devil will have to carry the last straw. =|
- 08-09 → And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. - 08-10 → The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.
- 08-11 → Being once chafed, he cannot
Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks
What's in his heart. - 08-12 → Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - 08-13 → And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes.
- 08-14 → A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- 08-15 → Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you. I know she does. Shane. Shane. Come back. 'Bye, Shane.
- 08-16 → The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
- 08-17 → This book fills a much-needed gap.
- 08-18 → Do ut des
("I give in order that you should give [back]") - 08-19 → I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
- 08-20 → Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith.
- 08-21 → Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
- 08-22 → The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
- 08-23 → I don't mind being wrong, if it means a better article is written.
- 08-24 → Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
("Love returns always to a noble heart") - 08-25 → To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
- 08-26 → I am very sorry, good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself,
[…]
But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a towering passion. - 08-27 →Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt
("The fates lead the willing and drag the unwilling") - 08-28 → I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom
- 08-29 → Yeah, I was in the s--t.
- 08-30 → If we can't bite, why do they worry about us taking the bait?
- 08-31 → The First Law of Pies: "No Pastry, No Pie."
September
- 09-01 → A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
- 09-02 → Senseless, and deformed,
Convulsive Anger storms at large; or, pale
And silent, settles into fell revenge. - 09-03 → Dulce est desipere in loco
("It is sweet on occasion to play the fool") - 09-04 → I am Spartacus.
- 09-05 → Your life is worth much more than gold.
- 09-06 → I'm here for other children.
- 09-07 → My view stretches out from the fence to the wall
- 09-08 → Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- 09-09 → The room,— a chapter from Kruchenykh's Inferno.
- 09-10 → I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
- 09-11 → I don't want to ever have to put that thing at 1/2 mast again for the rest of my career. That's it.
- 09-12 → I found that the poets were the worst possible interpreters of their own writings.
- 09-13 → The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.
- 09-14 → The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- 09-15 → Why worry about the beard, when the head is about to fall?
- 09-16 → One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
- 09-17 → I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
- 09-18 → Music is my religion.
- 09-19 → Nothing like a good piece of hickory.
- 09-20 → A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- 09-21 → Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
- 09-22 → They call me Mister Tibbs.
- 09-23 → Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.
- 09-24 → All's fish they get
That cometh to net. - 09-25 → Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
("Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity") - 09-26 → Always see everything, my brother.
- 09-27 → Dumque punitur scelus, crescit
("Even as crime is punished, it increases") - 09-28 → "Le train de tes injures roule sur le rail de mon indifférence."
"The train of your insults rolls on the rail of my indifference." - 09-29 → It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.
- 09-30 → If you don't turn them over to the MPs this minute, I - I'm going to resign my commission!
October
- 10-01 → Just like old Ollinger - has the minority opinion on everything.
- 10-02 → The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
- 10-03 → Anoint, v: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
- 10-04 → Never anger made good guard for itself.
- 10-05 → Durante bene placito [regis]
("At the pleasure [of the monarch]") - 10-06 → The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.
- 10-07 → Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
- 10-08 → Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and prejudice - 10-09 → E vo gridando: pace!
E vo gridando: amor!
And I cry to you: peace!
And I cry to you: love!
→ There's nothing you can do that can't be done […] you can learn how to play the game / It's easy
→ C'est moi qui ai sauvé le brol.
It was I who saved the rubbish.
- 10-11 → If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation.
- 10-12 → A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- 10-13 → There really is no alternative.
- 10-14 → A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- 10-15 → Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth. - 10-16 → The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- 10-17 → Computers make me totally blank out.
- 10-18 → Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
- 10-19 → Hey, everybody! Check your guns at the bar!
- 10-20 → A habit is hell for those you love.
- 10-21 → March boldly ahead, don't be late!
- 10-22 → And the license fee has gone up, up, up, up again
- 10-23 → Good manners don't cost nothing
- 10-24 → They made it in the city, which represented a double network of territorial units connected with guilds, these latter arising out of the common prosecution of a given art or craft, or for mutual support and defense.
- 10-25 → Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
- 10-26 → Will you give all you can give so that our banner may advance?
- 10-27 → And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.
- 10-28 → Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.
- 10-29 → Nobody listens to mathematicians.
- 10-30 → A harmless necessary cat.
- 10-31 → And that's a threat. Beginning to understand the difference?
November
- 11-01 → Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
("Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease.") - 11-02 → Miscreants — they are telling everything!
- 11-03 → A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
- 11-04 → If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- 11-05 → Distringit librorum multitudo.
"The abundance of books is distraction." - 11-06 → If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- 11-07 → Poems are difficult to silence.
- 11-08 → One learns to itch where one can scratch.
- 11-09 → I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.
- 11-10 → This particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
- 11-11 → Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And if I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.
- 11-12 → I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need
- 11-13 → Because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.
- 11-14 → All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- 11-15 → This is getting rather abstract, I perceive.
- 11-16 → Leap, and the net will appear.
- 11-17 → Shouldn’t you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population?
- 11-18 → Don't call me that. Please.
- 11-19 → Who's this "we" you're talking about?
- 11-20 → Has the whole world gone crazy?!
- 11-21 → Le sens commun n'est pas si commun.
Common sense is not so common. - 11-22 → The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
- 11-23 → This won't bring back our children.
- 11-24 → Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- 11-25 → We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
- 11-26 → Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.
- 11-27 → Coram populo
("In the presence of the people") - 11-28 → Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- 11-29 → Up and down the avenues they're always leaving little clues.
- 11-30 → Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
December
- 12-01 → Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill 'em.
- 12-02 → In a time of destruction, create something.
- 12-03 → Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
- 12-04 → Silence! I kill you!
- 12-05 → Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
- 12-06 → Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- 12-07 → Tolle, lege.
"Take up and read." - 12-08 → Friends can help each other.
- 12-09 → Rather than be less
Cared not to be at all. - 12-10 → Honesty is the best policy.
- 12-11 → All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
- 12-12 → It’s really hard to be conscious of this on a minute-by-minute basis online, but the Internet is made of people, and it works best when we remember that this thing is not a series of tubes but a conglomeration of human beings.
- 12-13 → What's done to children, they will do to society.
- 12-14 → No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
- 12-15 → This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- 12-16 → Hallo Rabbit, he said, is that you?
- 12-17 → The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine. —Abraham Lincoln
- 12-18 → It is easier to destroy than to create.
- 12-19 → I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!
- 12-20 → I offered you help. You refused to take our money. And then I said, "guess you're really up sh*t creek"!
- 12-21 → A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
- 12-22 → You lit a flame in my heart
And it is burning still
And every time I hear you shout
It still gives me a thrill - 12-23 → I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
- 12-24 → How far that little candle throws his beams!
- 12-25 → Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace;
East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; - 12-26 → Egotist: A person of low taste, a person more interested in himself than in me.
- 12-27 → The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs.
- 12-28 → I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
- 12-29 → You mean more to me than any scientific truth.
- 12-30 → Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
- 12-31 → Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.