"What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!" -- Robert A. Heinlein
"On the long list of things that cops don't like, up there near the top is acting if finding a corpse is purely a private matter." -- Archie Goodwin, The Second Confession by Rex Stout
Mountain guardian,
Saint Bernard's heart warm and kind,
Rescue in the snow.
"May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk."
Bud Light: The Drag Queen of Beers
DILLIGAF: Do Ilook like Igive afuck
Colt 1911
A lethal masterpiece forged
Freedom's sharp-edged sword
The Colt 1911
A classic, reliable sidearm
A true American icon.
"Fail, Learn, Iterate, succeed."
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus
"[Dwight] Yoakam's voice is a dead cross of Merle Haggard's early voice and Lefty Frizzell's" -- Thom Jurek
"We've seen that promise of a bright future, made it real, and killed it, skinned it, and worn it as a hat."
"Never mistake motion for action" -- Ernest Hemingway
"Nude is when your clothes are off. Naked is when your clothes are off and you are up to something."
Rescue in snow's grace,
Saint Bernard, gentle hero,
Warm hearts with wet nose.
"I've heard on good authority that all TV weathermen are furries."
"Don't argue with them. Just shitpost until they cry." -- Sun Tzu, probably...
"Your dad buys Bud Light at Target." -- A Biden occupation of the White House era children's taunt.
"It's only existentialism if it comes from the existentialism region of France. Otherwise, it's just sparkling anxiety."
Any "scientific" journal that uses a term like "birthing people" is not a scientific journal.
"If, according to Kanye West, one good girl is worth a thousand bitches, and if, according to Lil Wayne, bitches come a dime a dozen, it means that one good girl is worth $8.33 USD."
"Use your intelligence guided by experience." -- Nero Wolfe
"A Learjet SWAT team, on a midnight run, got a CAR-15 and an Ingram gun..." -- Jungle Work by Warren Zevon
"Money isn't everything in life, but poverty fucking sucks."
"But the biggest argument against it being completely true is the horrible inefficiency of the whole thing. No matter how slick the World Economic Forum makes their PowerPoint slide decks, whoever is running the world behind the scenes is completely fucking incompetent since it's a mess. Calling the world a dumpster fire is an insult to flaming garbage." -- Athenaeum, Inc. : Door Number Three by Kemp, Dan
"Just in the bizness of doin' bizness."
"Trouble is the wellspring of interesting fiction."
"I must not get takeout. Takeout is the wallet-killer. Takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. I will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. When hunger is gone there will be nothing. Only i will remain.
"You have a heavy machine gun mounted in the bed of your 1994 Toyota pickup truck. Unless you live in Kentucky, this is a red flag."
"If the universe is expanding, why can't I find a parking space?"
Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works, but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works, and no one knows why.
"That's the thing about public safety. There is always going to be members of the public that you cannot trust with other's safety."
"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution." -- Albert Einstein
"Sometimes you have to hug the people you don't like so you know how big to dig the hole in the back yard."
"Don't be careful. Be competent." -- Tom Cruise
"People go to the movies to be entertained, not lectured at."
"You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!" -- H. Beam Piper
"Remember, water ain't gonna clear until the hogs are out of the creek."
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
"Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion, it becomes superstition." -- G.K. Chesterton
"If you're going to cause chaos, you need to be organized."
"Life is tough. Get a helmet."
"Controlled chaos will always take the path of least resistance."
"Mojo Dojo Casa House"
"If your Schadenboner lasts for more than four hours...Enjoy It!" -- Sarah Hoyt
"It's Magic, until it's not."
"Thou shalt not leave unnecessary physical evidence."
"Please, test that assumption and then take note of the results."
"In New England, not being a people pleaser is part of the regional charm."
"I have bigger fish to fight."
"We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."
"We'll drive off that bridge when we get to it."
"You can lead a horse to water, but if you drown it you'll have to walk home."
"Opening a can of whales."
"You opened this can of whales, now lie in it."
"Bicycles are the most efficient machine yet invented for turning energy into motion. Indeed, the bicycle has been accurately described as a kind of green car, which can run on tap water and tea cakes and, moreover, has a built-in gym." -- Lord Taverne, UK House of Lords, in Nov 2015 debate
"In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Taxes. The scourge that corrupts all timelines."
"Stick with the people who pull the magic out of you and not the madness."
"I've got a date with destiny and it ain't gonna end with a kiss."
"Wind turbines are like strippers. They stop working when you stop throwing money at them."
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
"If a man dwells on the past, then he robs the present. But if a man igonores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nutured by the roots of our past."
"You are not entitled to your opinion, you are entitled to your informed opinion. If you are not informed on the subject, then your opinion counts for nothing." -- Harlan Ellison
"The place was so nasty, the rats complained to the health department."
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