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...his disciples lead him in; he just does the rest.
-- Tommy
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"His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling
outside. Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew..."
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His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred
to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never
claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum-
stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit.
Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers
went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of
prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri,
goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through
the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the
Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze
rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday.
Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique...
-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 124 of 2327 |
His heart was yours from the first moment that you met.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 125 of 2327 |
His ideas of first-aid stopped short of squirting soda water.
-- P.G. Wodehouse
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 126 of 2327 |
His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 127 of 2327 |
His mind is like a steel trap: full of mice.
-- Foghorn Leghorn
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His super power is to turn into a scotch terrier.
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Historians have now definitely established that Juan Cabrillo, discoverer
of California, was not looking for Kansas, thus setting a precedent that
continues to this day.
-- Wayne Shannon
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History books which contain no lies are extremely dull.
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