"Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.”

Source : "Susan Tyrrell obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
“Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”
“I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.”
“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”
“Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.”
“Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”

Source : "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". Book by Charles Mackay, 1841.
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
“The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.”

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