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50 Random Messages
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They came for the Communists, and I didn't object For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object."
-- Martin Niemoller |
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| 2. |
Strange Fact:
The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica. |
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| 3. |
Strange Law:
In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose. |
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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
-- Ingrid Bergman |
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Interesting Fact:
The minimum age set in the U.S. Constitution for the President of the United States is 35. |
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"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
-- G. K. Chesterton |
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"Hell is other people."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre |
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left over by those who hustle."
-- Abraham Lincoln |
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"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
-- Hannah Arendt |
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"When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, 'Do what you like now'."
-- Leo Tolstoy |
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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy."
-- Woody Allen |
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"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'"
-- Conan O'Brien |
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"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
-- Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady) |
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"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."
-- Irving Wallace |
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Interesting Fact:
In 1980, Namco released PAC-MAN, the most popular video (or arcade) game of all time. The original name was going to be PUCK MAN, but executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the P in the games marquee and labeling. |
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"The most difficult thing of all - yet the most essential - is to love life, even when you suffer, because life is all."
-- Leo Tolstoy |
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"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country."
-- George W. Bush, on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001 |
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| 19. |
"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath."
-- Conan O'Brien |
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"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place then, for a creator?"
-- Stephen W. Hawking |
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
-- Shirley Temple |
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"One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy 'Hey buddy, why are you doing that?' He said 'Because you came home early'."
-- Rodney Dangerfield |
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
-- General Douglas MacArthur |
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"There has never been a good war or a bad peace."
-- Benjamin Franklin |
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
-- Mark Twain |
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"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
-- Lucille S. Harper |
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"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 per minute."
-- Steven Wright |
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"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."
-- Thomas Pickering |
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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-- EE Cummings |
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
-- Salvador Dali |
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"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
-- J. D. Salinger |
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"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
-- Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) |
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use."
-- Galileo Galilei |
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"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
-- Fritz Kunkel |
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| 36. |
Strange Law:
It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church. |
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Brain Teaser:
There is a low railroad bridge in your town. One day you see a large truck stopped just before the underpass. When you ask what has happened, the driver tells you that his truck is one inch higher than the indicated height of the opening. This is the only road to his destination. What can he do to get through the underpass the easiest way? |
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| 38. |
"God, please save me from your followers!"
-- Bumper Sticker |
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"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
-- Nancy Reagan |
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"I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child."
-- Woody Allen |
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"My interest in the future is because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
-- Charles F. Kettering |
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Strange Law:
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. |
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"We're on a Mission from God!"
-- The Blues Brothers |
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"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
-- Ambrose Bierce |
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Historical Fact:
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee. |
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"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
-- Edward P. Tryon |
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"Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who have not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
-- Howard Scott |
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"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."
-- Roseanne Barr |
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"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
-- Woody Allen |
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