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Ten Random Quotes

"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."
Salvador Dali

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
Hunter S. Thompson

"The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth."
Arthur Rimbaud

"Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them."
William Hazlitt

"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
Thomas Jefferson

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."
Vince Lombardi

"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
Alan Perlis

"The citizen soldiers of New York's National Guard have selflessly sacrificed to fight the war abroad and to defend our security at home. The government owes them nothing less than to support them with the absolute best training and equipment available."
Charles Schumer

"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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