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- (amateurs) "Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
- (all) "All your base are belong to us." -- 'Cats', from unprofessional yet amusing translation of the Japanese video game Zero Wing
- (appear) "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -- Isaac Newton
- (asteroid) "What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." -- Dave Barry
- (boxing) "Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (broken) "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."
- (car) "You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (catastrophes) "Mankind has survived all catastrophes. Il will also survive modern medicine." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (chain) "With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -- Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Drumhead")
- (change) "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi
- (chocolate) "Chocolate is a psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally food of the gods. Chocolate has also been called the food of the devil; but the theological basis of this claim is obscure." -- ???
- (chocolate) "It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man." -- Miranda Ingram
- (comfort) "There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering." -- Cato
- (communication) "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." -- Peter F. Drucker
- (counting) "There are only three kinds of people in this world,... those who can count, and those who can't."
- (creativity) "The secret to creativity is knowing to hide your sources." -- Albert Einstein
- (creature) "The creature who answered the door was about three years old, redheaded, and quite possibly feral. It was probably female, although the knee-length jumper and giant fedora made its gender impossible to determine. It was clutching a box of chocolate cereal as if its life depended on it." -- A brilliant nameless author
- (dentist) "Is my dentist not bound by the Geneva Convention?" -- Gerhard Kocher
- (depressed) "When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." -- Elayne Boosler
- (duct tape) "I'm going to live off the wild, but I need duct tape first." --Anonymous
- (explanation) "There's no simple explanation for anything important any of us do / the human tragedy consists in the necessity of living / with the consequences" -- 'Courage', by Gordon Downie of the Tragically Hip (Actually, the Hip are quoting Hugh MacLennan from "The Watch That Ends the Night")
- (exploration) "We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time." ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets
- (fantasy) "Human beings need fantasy to be human, to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." -- Death
- (government) "Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (government) "It is impossible to govern rightly without God and the Bible." -- George Washington
- (government) "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson
- (government) "Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for security." -- Norman Vincent Peale
- (government) "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." -- Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
- (guns) "You want more gun control? Use both hands."
- (half-life) "The half-life of not getting the point is forever." -- Stanley Kubrick
- (hear) "Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure." -- "I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear."
- (honesty) "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." -- George Carlin
- (hospital) "After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!)." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (humanity) "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." -- Immanuel Kant
- (husband) "An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." -- Agatha Christie
- (important) "Nothing important is happening today." -- King George III of England, July 4, 1776
- (infinite) "The only truly infinite things are the universe and human stupidity, and I am not entirely sure of the former." - Albert Einstein
- (intelligent) "How easy would your life be if you were less intelligent!" -- Gerhard Kocher
- (know) "Quemadmodum possums scire utrum vere simus an solum sentiamus nos esse?" -- "How are we to know whether we actually exist or only think we exist?"
- (know) "If you don't know, shame on me. If you don't ask, shame on you." Professor Pibroch from Lancaster U. to his students
- (know-it-all) "Those who think they know-it-all are very annoying to those of us who do."
- (leaders) "How fortunate for leaders, that the masses do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
- (lie) "The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (life) "What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?"
- (life) "Life's a jest and all things show it, I thought so once but now I know it." -- John Gay
- (life) "Life after death? Can I never get some peace?" -- Gerhard Kocher
- (live) "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean
- (logical) "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle." -- Rita Mae Brown
- (majority) "The Silent majority is silent - and that is best for everybody." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (market) "The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from nicer people." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (medicine) "The world has so far survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (medicine) "Medicine knows no limits. Especially not its own." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (medicine) "From year to year it is more obvious: The goal of medicine is not health but the extension of the health system." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (medicine) "Let's not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (men) "If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" -- Linda Ellerbee
- (men) "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." -- Katharine Hepburn
- (mistrust) "Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."
- (nagging) "Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths." -- Baroness Edith Summerskill
- (nonsense) "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -- Dr. Seuss
- (nurse) "The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (nursing) "Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (nursing) "There is a widespread error: "Florence Nightingale" is not a new lingerie brand - she was a famous nursing pioneer (1820-1910)." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (ocean) "How inappropriate that this planet be called Earth, when it should clearly be called Ocean." -- Arthur C. Clarke
- (opportunity) "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." -- Anonomous
- (people) *Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (pharmaceutical industry) "The pharmaceutical industry is the art of making billions from milligrams." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (phrase) "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!), but 'that's funny...' -- Isaac Asimov
- (progress) "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sicks his neck out." -- Unknown
- (science) "Many of us will die for science without knowing it." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (sins) "There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. -- Roger Caras
- (slave) "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -- Abraham Lincoln
- (Star) "The star is invisible to a naked eye".
- (surgeon) "Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (time) "It's five before noon - as every 12 hours." -- Gerhard Kocher
- (tomorrow) "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- (vice) "Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both." -- Robert Burton, in The Anatomy of Melancholy
- (war) "War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?" -- Gerhard Kocher
- (women) "I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted." -- Terry Pratchett
- (phrase) "Eventually everyone gets older, and then you have to act your age, and not your shoe size."
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