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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
                -- John Ciardi

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Modern psychology takes completely for granted that behavior and neural
function are perfectly correlated, that one is completely caused by the
other.  There is no separate soul or lifeforce to stick a finger into the
brain now and then and make neural cells do what they would not otherwise.
Actually, of course, this is a working assumption only. ... It is quite
conceivable that someday the assumption will have to be rejected.  But it
is important also to see that we have not reached that day yet: the working
assumption is a necessary one and there is no real evidence opposed to it.
Our failure to solve a problem so far does not make it insoluble.  One cannot
logically be a determinist in physics and biology, and a mystic in psychology.
                -- D.O. Hebb, "Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological
                   Theory", 1949

MODESTY:
        Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
                -- J.K. Galbraith

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending
        not to be aware of it.
                -- Oliver Herford

Moe:    Wanna play poker tonight?
Joe:    I can't. It's the kids' night out.
Moe:    So?
Joe:    I gotta stay home with the nurse.

Moe:    What did you give your wife for Valentine's Day?
Joe:    The usual gift -- she ate my heart out.

Moebius always does it on the same side.

Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly.  An aide once asked him
how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week.
The great man replied that it was because this week he knew better.