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There are other ways of transporting people besides the streetcar. Maybe those ways are both more efficient, cheaper and more environmentally friendly. We can't ignore that because supposedly the streetcar is the soul of the city. Once upon a time I guess horses and carriages were the soul of the city.
Mazyar Keshvari

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Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Mark Twain

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Justice is incidental to law and order.

Havelock Vetinari J Edgar Hoover

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Dette oppslaget og denne framtvungne og meningsløse kritikken er et tegn på hvor dårlig stelt det er på komifronten i Norge om dagen. Vi har falt i tant og fjas-fella alle som en. Vi har åpenbart latt alle mulige grupperinger av forskjellige religioner og minoriteter slippe altfor billig unna altfor lenge. Så lenge at noen stakkarer altså forsøker å analysere en slags nedlatende og sjikanerende holdning ut av selv den platteste vits eller den tynneste suppe av et harmløst poeng tatt fra toppen av hodet og servert av oss og meg i "Brille". Jeg er flau over at når jeg først skal beskyldes for å sjikanere noen, ikke hadde et mye drøyere, friskere og mer raffinert poeng å slå i bordet med, enn det jeg fikk ut av meg i "Brille". Jeg er ikke for jødehets spesielt, men hets generelt. Alle må få litt hver. Jeg tar som komiker, også på vegne av humorstanden, selvkritikk på at vi ikke har klart å gjøre både majo- og minoritetene, og diverse religiøse grupperinger og folk generelt, mer hardhudede og tolerante overfor slengbemerkninger og humoristisk småsjikane. Vi klovner må med andre ord ta oss sammen og brette opp ermene for de har tydeligvis blitt for godt vant alle der ute som trenger en vits om seg. Vi trenger flere vitser og mer humor om alle dem som vil ha seg det frabedt så de ikke begynner å tro at de er hevet over alle oss andre.
Atle Antonsen

Jeg digger Atle Antonsen. Go for it.

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Weak Sauce. A completely inscrutable god like the one he's describing could be anybody. Cthulhu, Quetzacoatil, Vishnu, or the Great Green Arkleseizure ... who cares if a god is real if we have no idea what he wants or how to kill him?
Commenter ChaosSong on The Atheist Experience blog

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On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard Feynman

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"Write," she said, "as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Lori Lansens, The Girls

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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

HL Mencken

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H.L. Mencken

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I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague.
Agent Smith, The Matrix

Even though I'm such a massive Keanufan, I never really got all that into The Matrix. Probably because I rooted for the other guy. I think Agent Smith is totally right. We suck. The world would be infinitely better off without us. >:-(

Post inspired, if that's the word I want, by this tragic and infuriating news.

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If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.
Kofi Annan

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APOSTATE, n.: A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

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Og så går det opp for meg: Jeg streber etter en god utdannelse for å kunne bli akseptert av disse ekle menneskene. Jeg kan sikkert bite tennene sammen i noen år til og gjøre ferdig graden, men vil det gjøre meg lykkelig? Hvordan kan jeg være Marius hvis jeg kun innfrir deres forventninger? Når man tar imot råd og anbefalinger fra foreldre, glemmer man at de er gamle mennesker med egokonflikter og andre psykologiske problemer som gjør at de projiserer dritten sin. De tror kanskje de hjelper til, men i virkeligheten hjelper de kun seg selv.

Alexander Aarvik, Skuddsikker

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Heldigvis forsvant vaktene etterhvert, fordi de hørte festlyder fra opprørsteltene. Stå her og passe på fanger mens de andre fester? No way! tenkte de, heldigvis for Kurt. Og dette er jo på en måte Nord-Norge i et nøtteskall. Og samtidig er det nettopp denne mangelen på disiplin og impulskontroll som gjør at Nord-Norge aldri kommer til å bli et eget land.

Erlend Loe, Kurt kurér

Leser boka på nytt nå og digger den. Disse nordlendingene, dere ... :-D