I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
Billy Bragg 1983

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent John Maynard Keynes

The reason arguments in science get so vicious is because the stakes are so low.
D. Ragan late 80's.

If you think science is bad, you should see what the art world is like.
A. Ragan, immediately afterwards.

What is practical today is out of date tomorrow.
H.J. Lipkin 1997

I know people whose idea of fun
Is throwing stones in the river in the afternoon sun
Oh let me be as free as them
BB 1986

But, oh, love is strange
and you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth,
I suppose
B.B. 1983

The laws of gravity are very,very strict
And you're just bending them for your own benefit
B.B. 1988

The worst thing you can say to a true revolutionary is that his
revolution is unnecessary, that the problems can be corrected without
radical change. Telling people that paradise can be attained without
revolution is treason of the vilest kind.
Henry Spencer 1993

Wearing badges is not enough
In days like these
B.B. 1986

Most important decisions in life
Are made between two people in bed
B.B. 1988

If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman...
So join the struggle while you may
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
B.B. 1988

The temptation
To take the precious things we have apart
To see how they work
Must be resisted for they never fit together again
B.B. 1988

Rent a flat above a shop
cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
`cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your Dad he could stop it all
Yeah
You'll never live like common people
you'll never do what common people do
you'll never fail like common people
you'll never watch your life slide out of view
and then dance, and drink, and screw
because there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
sing along and it might just get you through
Laugh along with the common people
laugh along even though they're laughing at you
and the stupid things that you do
because you think that poor is cool
J. Cocker, Pulp.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man,
but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
As seen on http://www.btinternet.com/~catbasket/

Q: Why do anarchists drink herbal tea?
A: Because proper tea is theft.
- Anonymous via Ragnhildur with apologies to Proudhomme

Hushing PhDs is like herding cats. Uncle Al

If you want 1 year of prosperity grow grain If you want 10 years of prosperity grow trees If you want 100 years of prosperity grow people anecdotal Chinese proverb, courtesy of Jean

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