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| #2861 | | Now I lay me down to sleep
I hear the sirens in the street
All my dreams are made of chrome
I have no way to get back home
- Tom Waits
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| #2862 | | I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave until I get my raincoat
back.
- a slogan of the anarchists in Richard Kadrey's "Metrophage"
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| #2863 | | How many nuclear engineers does it take to change a light bulb ?
Seven: One to install the new bulb, and six to determine what to do
with the old one for the next 10,000 years.
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| #2864 | | Mike's Law:
For a lumber company employing two men and a cut-off saw, the
marginal product of labor for any number of additional workers
equals zero until the acquisition of another cut-off saw.
Let's not even consider a chainsaw.
- Mike Dennison
[You could always schedule the saw, though - ed.]
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| #2865 | | As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making
it round this time.
- Mike Dennison
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| #2866 | | This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry is now in the American experience... We must not fail to
comprehend its grave implications... We must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address in 1961
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| #2867 | | This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered
french toast in the renaissance.
- Steven Wright, comedian
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| #2868 | | Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman
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| #2869 | | A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it's designed to be minimal.
The smallness of it is what's attractive. It's weird, 'cause it's so
intellectually lame. It's hard to see me doing that for the rest of
my life. But at the same time, it's what I do best.
- Chris Elliot, writer and performer on "Late Night with David Letterman"
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| #2870 | | e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data
you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap.
- Karl Lehenbauer
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