@outer@mas.toErnest: Gilbert, you treat the world as if it were a crystal ball. You hold it in your hand, and reverse it to please a wilful fancy. You do nothing but re-write history.
Gilbert: The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it.
--Oscar Wilde, Intentions 1891
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@outer@mas.to"Think of the opportunities here in Florida! Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket...Now I've got a nickel in my pocket."
—Groucho Marx as Hammer, in the movie The Cocoanuts, 1929
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@outer@mas.to“As I looked out into the night sky,
across all those infinite stars,
it made me realise how insignificant they are.”
—Peter Cook
(Russell Brand in “My Booky Wook 2007”, nicely misquoting Peter Cook.)
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@outer@mas.toThere are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Christian Religion: An Enquiry
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