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JF

 From my signature file.

   "Naked force has settled more issues in history
  than any other factor.The contrary opinion 'violence
 never solves anything' is wishful thinking at its worst."

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into
my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

I am desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Dave Edison

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real
security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of
civilization.
Sigmund Freud

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It is the life in
your years.
Abraham Lincoln

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever
stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell
who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Our solar system consists of one star and some debris.
Carl Sagan

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the
new.
Henry David Thoreau

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that
are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained.
Mark Twain

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Gore Vidal

I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's
accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving
peace.
George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the
shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams

I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.
Muhammad Ali

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

I became a policeman because I wanted to be in a business where the customer
is always wrong.
Anonymous

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Anonymous

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka,

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad
woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man,
I would find something in them to have him hanged.
- Richelieu