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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled
through snow.
—Jeff Valdez
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
—Paul Valery
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
—Paul Valery
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Love is being stupid together.
—Paul Valery
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which
properly concern them.
—Paul Valery
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to
be.
—Paul Valery
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I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the
sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you
are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.
—Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, philosophy professor
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
—Maimie Van Doren
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The job of the poet is to render the world—to see it and report it
without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only
sentimental people do.
—Mark Van Doren
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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
—Henry Van Dyke
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at
all.
—Harriet Van Horne
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the
vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
—Harriet Van Horne
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I've finally learned what "upward compatible" means. It means we get to
keep all our old mistakes.
—Dennie Van Tassel
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few
minutes.
—Edgard Varese
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
—Bill Vaughan
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's
another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of
nonconformity.
—Bill Vaughan
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them.
—Bill Vaughan
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The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the
plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
—Bill Vaughan
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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
—Bill Veeck
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
—Gore Vidal
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by
definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
—Gore Vidal
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for
President. One hopes it is the same half.
—Gore Vidal
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
—Gore Vidal
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply
do as I advise.
—Gore Vidal
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There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to
say it all.
—Gore Vidal
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
—Gore Vidal
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When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel,
building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind
by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left
behind in the thought records.
—Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), "Star Trek"
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
—Virgil
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Time is flying never to return.
—Virgil
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To have died once is enough.
—Virgil
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Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than "Microsoft," don't you?
—Patrick Volkerding
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A witty saying proves nothing.
—Voltaire
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
—Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well.
—Voltaire
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
—Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make
my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
—Voltaire
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the
death, your right to say it.
—Voltaire
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
—Voltaire
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
—Voltaire
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
—Voltaire
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great
—Voltaire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
—Voltaire
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
well-mannered.
—Voltaire
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I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
—Wernher von Braun
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one
that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
—Wernher von Braun
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
—Wernher von Braun
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is,
of course, in a state of sin.
—John von Neumann
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're
talking about.
—John von Neumann
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is
preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and
attacked a hot fudge sundae.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to
be.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of
ours.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on
the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is
amusing. I've been in a generally good
—Marilyn vos Savant
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Who does not love wine, women, and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.
—Johann Heinrich Voss