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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
                -- P. Medawar

The human race has been fascinated by sharks for as long as I can
remember.  Just like the bluebird feeding its young, or the spider
struggling to weave its perfect web, or the buttercup blooming in
spring, the shark reveals to us yet another of the infinite and
wonderful facets of nature, namely the facet that it can bite your head
off.  This causes us humans to feel a certain degree of awe.
                -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
                -- Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that
procession but carrying a banner.
                -- Mark Twain

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
                -- Ashley Montague

The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with
sledgehammers.  With their devices thus permanently destroyed,
consumers would then be free to go out and buy new devices, rather than
have to fritter away years of their lives trying to have the old ones
repaired at so-called "factory service centers," which in fact consist
of two men named Lester poking at the insides of broken electronic
devices with cheap cigars and going, "Lookit all them WIRES in there!"
                -- Dave Barry, "'Mister Mediocre' Restaurants"

"The identical is equal to itself, since it is different."
                -- Franco Spisani

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit
longer."
                -- Henry Kissinger

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf
has.  Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know
when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
                -- Will Rogers

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
important thing to people.
                -- Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King