[net.politics] QUOTES NEEDED

brkirby@watmum.UUCP (Bruce Kirby) (11/11/85)

	I am trying to compile a list of unusual quotations. These
can be from any source, but should not be the sort normally found in
books of quotes, either because they are funny, obscure and/or
particularly recent(i.e. The sort of thing one would put in a
.signature file).

	Anything would be appreciated.  If there is sufficient
response, I will post a summary.


				Bruce Kirby

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tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (11/12/85)

Here's a quote for your files....

"Knowledge is good."
Emil Faber

eli@vcvax1.UUCP (eli) (11/14/85)

> 
> 	I am trying to compile a list of unusual quotations. These
> can be from any source, but should not be the sort normally found in
> books of quotes, either because they are funny, obscure and/or
> particularly recent(i.e. The sort of thing one would put in a
> .signature file).
> 

	I have heard of and been read to from a book called:

	"The 637 *other* Best Things anyone ever said."

	Presumably, it is a sequel, but I have been unable to find
	the book that it follows.

	Its hilarious! (at least the parts that I heard were) This book
	reads like the fortune database (at least thats the kind of
	quotes one finds there). A friend of mine in Palo Alto uses quotes
	from this book for the database in his own fortune program.
	(strangely enough, my friend's name is Erik Fortune :-)

	Sorry, I don't know the publisher or author (editor?) but this
	shouldn't be too hard to find.



	Elias Israel		VenturCom, Inc
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farmer@houligan.UUCP (Bullwinkle) (11/27/85)

	Blind acceptance is a sign
        Of stupid fools who stand in line. . .

			- John Lydon


	Anarchy breeds true equality.

			- "Bullwinkle" (aka Claude Farmer)

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phl@druhi.UUCP (LavettePH) (12/02/85)

From an article head-lined, "CIA Denies Training Terrorist Bombers", that
appeared in the Rocky Mountain News on May 14,1985:

    Another witness, military specialist Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corp., a
    private "think tank", said he would "hesitate to underestimate" the will
    of the American people to go to war if they were convinced that it was
    the only way to deal with an adversary.

    "War is like toothpaste," he said.  "It has to be sold on television."

If this is representative of our nation's "think tanks'" alledged "thinking",
I must say to them:

    "Your thoughts are like Preparation-H. You should be smart enough to
     know what to do with them without my needing to spell it out for you."

 - Phil