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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.


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Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?



Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.



I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.



One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.



I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.



Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.



Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.



I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.



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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.



I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.





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If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]



He loved dogs.She loved cats.That's the only possible reason they could figure out for their after-marriage fighting like Cats & Dogs.

He loved dogs.She loved cats.That's the only possible reason they could figure out for their after-marriage fighting like Cats & Dogs.



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I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is.



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T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.



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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.



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The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.



I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.



My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.



But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.

But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.




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