Freebsd Fortunes 7

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand
miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules,
and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there
is no such thing as progress.
                -- Ransom K. Ferm

With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind
she lies.  And when she lies, she does not believe herself.
                -- Tolstoy

With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance.

With reasonable men I will reason;
with humane men I will plead;
but to tyrants I will give no quarter.
                -- William Lloyd Garrison

With the end of the football season, a star player for the college team
celebrated the relaxation of team curfew by attending a late-night campus
party.  Soon after arriving, he became captivated by a beautiful coed and
eased into a conversation with her by asking if she met many dates at
parties.
        "Oh, I have a three point eight, so I'm much more attracted to the
strong academic types than to the dumb party animals," she said.  "What's
your G.P.A.?"
        Grinning ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get about twenty-five in
the city and forty on the highway."

With the end of the football season, a star player on the college team was
celebrating the relaxation of his curfew by attending a late-night campus
party.  Soon after arriving, he was captivated by a beautiful coed and
eased into a conversation with her by asking if she met many dates at
parties.
        "Oh, I have a three point eight, so I'm much more attracted to the
strong academic types than to the dumb party animals," she said.  "What's
you G.P.A.?"
        Grinning from ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get at least
twenty-five in the city and forty on the highway!"

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of
it.  I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too
close.  Like catching snakes.
                -- Marlon Brando

Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.

Within a month [in 1969] I had met the first of a small but not uninfluential
community of people who violently opposed SALT for a simple reason: It might
keep America from developing a first-strike capability against the Soviet
Union.  I'll never forget being lectured by an Air Force colonel about how
we should have "nuked" the Soviets in late 1940s before they got The Bomb.
I was told that if SALT would go away, we'd soon have the capability to nuke
them again -- and this time we'd use it.
                -- Roger Molander, former nuclear strategist for the
                White House's National Security Council, Washington
                Post, 21 March, 1982

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
                -- Alfred North Whitehead