"Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.”
“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
“Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.”
“I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.”
“Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.”
“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

Source : "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Part I : The Eye in the Pyramid, (p. 176), 1988.
“Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.”

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