| 13 Feb, 2009 |
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. The computer is a moron. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Instant gratification takes too long. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. |
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