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All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
                -- Susan Sontag

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism
to live beyond its income.
                -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
                -- Sean O'Casey

All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each
other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with
our lives."
                -- Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell"

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.

Always remember that you are unique.  Just like everyone else.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
                -- Charlie McCarthy

America's best buy for a quarter is a telephone call to the right person.

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

An elderly couple were flying to their Caribbean hideaway on a chartered plane
when a terrible storm forced them to land on an uninhabited island.  When
several days passed without rescue, the couple and their pilot sank into a
despondent silence. Finally, the woman asked her husband if he had made his
usual pledge to the United Way Campaign.
        "We're running out of food and water and you ask *that*?" her husband
barked.  "If you really need to know, I not only pledged a half million but
I've already paid them half of it."
        "You owe the U.W.C. a *quarter million*?" the woman exclaimed
euphorically.  "Don't worry, Harry, they'll find us!  They'll find us!"