[2265] in Central_America
New quotes for Sat Mar 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Mar 10 01:31:41 1990
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 90 01:31:01 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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afridi (Khurram Khan Afridi):
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
"You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers
That your lectures bore people to death.
Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year --
Don't you think that you should save your breath?"
"I have answered three questions and that is enough,"
Said his father, "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"
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dkk (David K Krikorian):
``Sleep is not for the weak; sleep is for the weekend!''
Uttered by jtidwell@athena.mit.edu at 3 o'clock on a Friday morning.
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jab (Jason A Beardsley):
"This Great Ring is much desired by all, then," said Frito.
"And they desire a curse!" cried Goodgulf, waving his wand with
passion. "For as surely as the Ring gives power, just as surely it
becomes the master! The wearer slowly changes, and never to the good.
He grows mistrustful and jealous of his power as his heart hardens. He
loves overmuch his strengths and develops stomach ulcers. He becomes
logy and irritable, prone to neuritis, neuralgia, nagging backache, and
frequent colds. Soon no one invites him to parties any more."
"A most horrible treasure, this Great Ring," said Frito.
"And a horrible burden for he who bears it," said Goodgulf, "for
some unlucky one must carry it from Sorhed's grasp into danger and
certain doom. Someone must take the ring to the Zazu Pits of Fordor,
under the evil nose of the wrathful Sorhed, yet appear so unsuited to
his task that he will not be soon found out."
Frito shivered in sympathy for such an unfortunate. "Then the
bearer should be a complete and utter dunce," he laughed nervously.
Goodgulf glanced at Dildo, who nodded and casually flipped a small,
shining object into Frito's lap. It was a ring.
"Congratulations," said Dildo somberly. "You've just won the booby
prize."
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never
understands anything."
-- "The House at Pooh Corner",
A. A. Milne
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jphaughw (James P Haughwout):
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Look out, Colorado, here I come. See you all next week.
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juzhao (Ju Zhao):
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leungsam (Samuel Leung):
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montreal (It's just Toby):
Schopenhauer.....points out that when you reach an advanced age and
look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent
order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when
they occurred had seemed accidental and of little moment turn out to
have been indispensable factors in the composition of a consistent
plot. So who composed that plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as
your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your
consciousness is unaware, so too, your whole life is composed by the
will within you. And just as people whom you will have met apparently
by mere chance became leading agents in the structuring of your life,
so too, will you have served unknowingly as an agent, giving meaning
to the lives of others. The whole thing gears together like one big
symphony, with everything unconsciously structuring everything
else.....one great dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream
characters dream, too; .....Everything arises in mutual relation to
everything else, so you can't blame anybody for anything. It is even
as though there were a single intention behind it all, which always
makes some kind of sense, though none of us knows what the sense might
be, or has lived the life that he quite intended.
-- Joseph Campbell --
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pmlouie (P. M. Louie):
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raeburn (Ken Raeburn):
Weird is finding an earring in your pocket, that doesn't belong to the
only other person who's had access to your pockets recently...
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rbejar (Waldo E Poindexter):
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wesommer (Bill Sommerfeld):
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity
and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted
activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ...
neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
--- End of Central America ---
