// Author:Brandon Checketts
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quoteArray[0]="\"Have fun!\"  - Jan";
quoteArray[1]="\"I get >tired< of being told to politely ask for my rights from people who didn't have the right to take them away in the first place.\"  - Greg Parkinson "
quoteArray[2]="\"I remember Alan Watts asked me one day, \'Joe, what kind of meditation do you do?\' I said, \'I underline sentences.\'\"  - Joseph Campbell"
quoteArray[3]="\"When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.\"  - Audre Lorde"
quoteArray[4]="\"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. He who cannot teach, teaches gym.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[5]="\"Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.\"  - George Bernard Shaw"
quoteArray[6]="\"To act sincerely with the insincere is dangerous.\"  - Taoist proverb"
quoteArray[7]="\"Come here and kiss me.\"  - Jon Shemitz"
quoteArray[8]="\"If my film makes one more person miserable, I'll feel I've done my job.\"  - Woody Allen."
quoteArray[9]="\"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.\"  - Abraham Lincoln"
quoteArray[10]="\"Go, and never darken my towels again.\"  - Groucho Marx"
quoteArray[11]="\"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.\"  - Dorothy Parker"
quoteArray[12]="\"There's everything in this movie, everything that fits, from the meaning of life in the Universe to girls with great big tits.\"  - Monty Python"
quoteArray[13]="\"Do what I say. Don't worry.\"  - Zippy's Apple computer"
quoteArray[14]="\"Hello, just walk along and try not to think about your intestines being almost forty yards long!\"  - Zippy"
quoteArray[15]="\"If you go really close, everything looks like dying oysters.\"  - Zippy"
quoteArray[16]="\"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, else what's a meta phor?\"  - Hen3ry"
quoteArray[17]="\"The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.\"  - Tachyon misquoting Ward Christensen misquoting Filbo"
quoteArray[18]="\"Politicians should read Science Fiction, not Westerns and Detective stories.\"  - Arthur C. Clarke"
quoteArray[19]="\"Today is tomorrow's yesterday, and yesterday's tomorrow.\"  - Steve Guy at Santa Cruz High"
quoteArray[20]="\"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the master of the arts and the origin of marvels.\"  - Goya"
quoteArray[21]="\"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.\"  - Heisenberg"
quoteArray[22]="\"Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.\"  - Pat Paulsen"
quoteArray[23]="\"I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.\"  - Miles Davis"
quoteArray[24]="\"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed state commerce.\"  - J. Edgar Hoover"
quoteArray[25]="\"Write, Write, Write!!!\"  - Nightshade"
quoteArray[26]="\"Vidi, Vici, Veni.\"  - Rogue"
quoteArray[27]="\"I have nothing to declare except my genius.\"  - Oscar Wilde, to revenue officers in America"
quoteArray[28]="\"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.\"  - Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[29]="\"There's no need to go to hell to light a cigarette.\"  - A Cypriot saying"
quoteArray[30]="\"Liberty is the right not to lie.\"  - Camus"
quoteArray[31]="\"I still haven't said anything quotable.\"  - Look Out"
quoteArray[32]="\"I think every other quote should be from me.\"  - Look Out"
quoteArray[33]="\"The writer should never be ashamed of staring.\"  - Flannery O'Connor"
quoteArray[34]="\"There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.\"  - Flannery O'Connor"
quoteArray[35]="\"It is never too late to give up your prejudices.\"  - Thoreau"
quoteArray[36]="\"In art, as in no other form of endeavor, there is meaning apart from success.\"  - Conrad"
quoteArray[37]="\"The foolish man wonders at the unusual; the wise man at the usual.\"  - Emerson"
quoteArray[38]="\"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.\"  - Virginia Woolf"
quoteArray[39]="\"I have never yielded to reality. That's what S.F. is all about.\"  - Philip K. Dick"
quoteArray[40]="\"If you have not lived through something, it is not true.\"  - Kabir"
quoteArray[41]="\"God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk.\"  - A blessing of the 18th Egyptian dynasty"
quoteArray[42]="\"I write to say NO to death.\"  - Faulkner"
quoteArray[43]="\"...an artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't usually know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.\"  - Faulkner"
quoteArray[44]="\"I don't have much patience with the facts, and any writer is a congenital liar to begin with or he wouldn't take up writing.\"  - Faulkner"
quoteArray[45]="\"The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running though the bowel of the intellect.\"  - Steven King"
quoteArray[46]="\"Trouble with quotations from me is that I'm a vast storehouse & treasury of 'em myself.\"  - Wizzard"
quoteArray[47]="\"The phrase \'grin without a cat\' is not a bad description of pure mathematics.\"  - Martin Gardner"
quoteArray[48]="\"No paradox, no progress.\"  - A Cern laboratory official"
quoteArray[49]="\"I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.\"  - Andre Gide"
quoteArray[50]="\"What's wrong with the world then, that it doesn't ask -- and make it possible -- for people to raise and contribute the best that is in them.\"  - Tillie Olsen"
quoteArray[51]="\"I shall never understand vegetarians or heterosexuals.\"  - Wizzard"
quoteArray[52]="\"I write by putting a few words on paper widely spaced, then going back to fill in the blanks.\"  - Ring Lardner"
quoteArray[53]="\"I can take some inaccuracy, or some accusation; but the combination is poison.\"  - Ursula LeGuin"
quoteArray[54]="\"If if = then then then = else else else = if;\"  - PL/I"
quoteArray[55]="\"I shall go on being an impossible person until those who are now possible are themselves impossible.\"  - Bakunin"
quoteArray[56]="\"Dear Sir or Madam:  You may be right at that.\"  - H.L. Mencken's printed reply postcards"
quoteArray[57]="\"All historical events occur twice:  once as tragedy, the second time as farce.\"  - Karl Marx"
quoteArray[58]="\"... the different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision.\"  - the Mock Turtle"
quoteArray[59]="\"Sanity is a madness put to good uses, waking life is a dream controlled.\"  - Santayana"
quoteArray[60]="\"People learn from the truth even though the truth is a mess.\"  - Peter Elbow"
quoteArray[61]="\"Oh well...\"  - Damian"
quoteArray[62]="\"Weasel words are words that suck all the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.\"  - Stewart Chaplin"
quoteArray[63]="\"I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.\"  - Flannery O'Connor"
quoteArray[64]="\"Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?\"  - George Bernard Shaw "
quoteArray[65]="\"The purpose of fiction is the creation of a small furry object that will break your heart.\"  - Donald Barthelme"
quoteArray[66]="\"Well Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats, and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street!\"  - Neil Armstrong to Walter Cronkite"
quoteArray[67]="\"As your Wizard, I am about to embark on a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the upper stratosphere. To confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with my fellow wizards.\"  - The Wizard of Oz"
quoteArray[68]="\"Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.\"  - Jose Ortega y Gasset"
quoteArray[69]="\"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.\"  - William Blake"
quoteArray[70]="\"Ordinarily my ratio of concerns is something like this:  Fifty percent work and worry over work, 35% the perpetual struggle against lunacy, 15% a very true and tender love for those who have been and are close to me as friends and as lover. But (sometimes) the ratio changes to something like this:  Work and worry over work, 89%; struggle against lunacy (partly absorbed in the first category) 10%; very true and tender love for friends, 1%. A stranger would doubt this, but you have known and observed me for a long time. Surely you see how it is!\"  - Tennessee Williams"
quoteArray[71]="\"To be modest is to understand oneself as being capable of all men's weaknesses.\"  - Bernard of Clairvaux"
quoteArray[72]="\"We are all lost people in this world, do we need introduction?\"  - Po Chu Yo"
quoteArray[73]="\"If Americans were really materialistic, they wouldn't eat the trash they call white bread.\"  - Kim Taylor"
quoteArray[74]="\"I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process in which four persons are involved. We shall have a lot to discuss about that.\"  - Sigmund Freud"
quoteArray[75]="\"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.\"  - Blake"
quoteArray[76]="\"If my mom pays, I'll do anything.\"  - The Devil's Advocate"
quoteArray[77]="\"Nobody who says, \'I told you so\' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.\"  - Ursula Le Guin"
quoteArray[78]="\"Those who refuse to listen to dragons are probably doomed to spend their lives acting out the nightmares of politicians.\"  - Ursula Le Guin"
quoteArray[79]="\"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.\"  - Shelley"
quoteArray[80]="\"Dear Mr. Anderson:  That is not the way I do it. Yours truly, GOD\"  - A letter replying to Poul Anderson's article, \'How to Create a World.\'"
quoteArray[81]="\"Schenectady!\"  - Harlan Ellison's usual reply to the usual question, \'Where do you get your ideas from?\'"
quoteArray[82]="\"Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.\"  - Ursula Le Guin"
quoteArray[83]="\"The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.\"  - Ursula Le Guin"
quoteArray[84]="\"I wonder if the reason why we have no Solzhenitsyn in this country (and no Pasternak, no Zamyatin, no Tolstoy) is that we do not believe in the possiblilty of having one. Because we do not believe in the reality of art. The strange thing about the Russians is that they do believe in art, in the power of art to change the minds of men. That is why they censor it. It is also why they have a Solzhenitsyn. It has been said that every country has the government it deserves. I would add that every people has the artists it deserves.\"  - Ursula Le Guin"
quoteArray[85]="\"I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[86]="\"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.\"  - Camus"
quoteArray[87]="\"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.\"  - Jung"
quoteArray[88]="\"I may be a mean little duck, but I'm an alive little duck.\"  - Daffy Duck"
quoteArray[89]="\"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.\"  - Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice"
quoteArray[90]="\"They say, best men are molded out of faults:  And, for the most, become much the better, For being a little bad.\"  - Shakespeare, Measure for Measure"
quoteArray[91]="\"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.\"  - Shakespeare, King Henry VI"
quoteArray[92]="\"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.\"  - Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing"
quoteArray[93]="\"If it isn't in the answer book, instructors become almost mortal.\"  - Micro Cornucopia Culture Corner"
quoteArray[94]="\"Billions of neutrinos are passing in all directions through your body, as you read these words; by the time you pause to think about them, they have gone on their way, out past the orbit of the moon.\"  - Nigel Calder"
quoteArray[95]="\"If I could remember the names of all these particles I would have been a botanist.\"  - Enrico Fermi"
quoteArray[96]="\"Any theory proposed by a physicist will immediately apply to the matter forming his body.\"  - The second Pauli principle"
quoteArray[97]="\"She's smart, almost too smart, but she doesn't like my Iron Maiden posters, so she's not perfect.\"  - Steve Guy about his famous mother"
quoteArray[98]="\"The difference between a bad artist & a good one is:  The bad artist seems to copy a great deal. The good one really does copy a great deal.\"  - Blake"
quoteArray[99]="\"The church of my choice is the free, open world.\"  - Jason Taverner"
quoteArray[100]="\"I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.\"  - Vincent van Gogh"
quoteArray[101]="\"BENVENUTI A VINCI. LIMITE DI VELOCITA DELLA LUCE, 40 KM.\"  - Traffic sign briefly erected in the Italian town of Vinci"
quoteArray[102]="\"We hired 300 programmers to carry out the conversion. We didn't realize that half those people were new to programming.\"  - IRS spokesperson Thomas Laycock"
quoteArray[103]="\"You need a new environment, try Canada. You need a new environment, try Japan.\"  - Tachyon and Jon's fortune cookies, 4/15/86 Lucky Dragon restaurant"
quoteArray[104]="\"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.\"  - Camus"
quoteArray[105]="\"It's not conceit that makes me greet compliments with that stupid, ungrateful look I know so well, but (along with the profound indifference that haunts me like a natural infirmity) a strange feeling that comes over me:  \'You're missing the point ...\'\"  - Camus"
quoteArray[106]="\"Linus:  \'That's how life is, Charlie Brown. You win some, you lose some.\'  Charlie Brown:  \'Really?  Gee, that'd be NEAT!\'"
quoteArray[107]="\"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.\"  - Blake"
quoteArray[108]="\"Is not to steal towels, please. If you are not such person as to do this, please ignore this sign.\"  - Sign in a hotel lobby"
quoteArray[109]="\"No sane being voluntarily interrupts a defense mechanism.\"  - Pierson's Puppeteer"
quoteArray[110]="\"She'd say, 'Now, Bert, there you are sitting with your nose in a book again. What'll it get you?'  And I'd say, 'It'll get me everywhere I haven't been, Alice.'\"  - Bert Sheppard"
quoteArray[111]="\"I didn't know about sex until I walked with a girlfriend through the Museum of Natural History underneath the great whale, and she told me about sex. It is curious, and one can't say silly, the way one first hears about it, but there it was and I thought Ah, >that's< why my parents don't commit suicide! That seemed to be the thing that would save the life of people in such misery and such silence."
quoteArray[112]="\"The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.\"  - Andre Gide"
quoteArray[113]="\"Nietzche [sic] said that poetry has turned beasts into men. Perhaps, then, poetry will turn computers into men?\"  - Racter"
quoteArray[114]="\"I think that having a normal teacher using any BBS would destroy what has become the last sanctuary for some of us. Besides, most normal teachers have trouble using a computer, let alone a modem.\"  - Nonsuch"
quoteArray[115]="\"It's hard to sing a song that makes you puke. You can't do both at the same time.\"  - Grace Slick"
quoteArray[116]="\"Stupidity is like hydrogen; it's everywhere, it's the basic building block of the universe.\"  - Frank Zappa"
quoteArray[117]="\"When your culture abandons you, create a new one.\"  - Ira Robbins"
quoteArray[118]="\"If you wrote about death completely convincingly you'd kill all your readers.\"  - William Burroughs"
quoteArray[119]="\"It's extremely difficult to rise above the level of your own best cliches.\"  - Bill Nelson "
quoteArray[120]="\"What I give form to in daylight is only one percent of what I've seen in darkness.\"  - M.C. Escher"
quoteArray[121]="\"Anything I say at this point can and will be used against me in the cookie file.\"  - Wizzard"
quoteArray[122]="\"No photo can show how beautiful Earth looked.\"  - Captain Ed Mitchell, describing free-fall."
quoteArray[123]="\"Can all this just be an accident?  Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?\"  - Captain James T. Kirk"
quoteArray[124]="\"Phobos looks not so much like an artificial asteroid as a diseased potato.\"  - Carl Sagan"
quoteArray[125]="\"We, the older people, look to the young and hope that they will strive with all their might to achieve the better world that was denied our generation.\"  - Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[126]="\"Common sense:  that set of biases and prejudices which one accumulates before one is eighteen years old.\"  - Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[127]="\"Do not worship, revere, or be afraid of any person, group, space, or reality. An investigator, an explorer, has no room for such baggage.\"  - John Lilly"
quoteArray[128]="\"It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.\"  - Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[129]="\"Science Fiction ... circulating the knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of Life.\"  -  William Wilson, inventing the term \'Science Fiction\' in 1851"
quoteArray[130]="\"All power to the imagination.\"  - Wall poster, Paris, May 1968"
quoteArray[131]="\"\'How is it, Dr. Einstein, that you can keep up such a cheerful spirit when you have this dark opinion of the world?\'  \'We must remember that this is a very small star, and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy.\'\"  - Mrs. Nathan and Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[132]="\"The devil take the large countries with all their conceit! Had I the power, I should divide them all into little ones.\"  - Albert Einstein"
quoteArray[133]="\"Whenever possible try to catch your subject off guard.\"  - Instruction booklet for Tachyon's new camera. (Watch out, people!)"
quoteArray[134]="\"In view of the objections raised by some reviewers concerning the use of the word \'creation,\' it should be explained that the author understands this term, not in the sense of \'making something out of nothing,\' but rather as \'making something shapely out of shapelessness,\' as, for example, in the phrase \'the latest creation of Parisian fashion.\'\"  - George Gamow, preface to \'The Creation of the Universe\'"
quoteArray[135]="\"Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes.\"  - Mayor Richard Daley"
quoteArray[136]="\"Do not ever let any of the would be sophisticates in this world tell you that correspondences like yours do not mean everything in the world to someone like me. Because I am here to say that they most certainly do.\"  - Lorraine Hansberry"
quoteArray[137]="\"What happens to a dream deferred?\rDoes it dry up\rLike a raisin in the sun?\rOr fester like a sore--\rAnd then run?\rDoes it stink like rotten meat?\rOr crust and sugar over--\rLike a syrupy sweet?\r \rMaybe it just sags\rLike a heavy load\r \rOr does it explode?\"\r \r-- Langston Hughes"
quoteArray[138]="\"Santa Claus and I want to know if you can find the guts to act like responsible creators, rather than timid and flaccid cowards.\"  - Harlan Ellison"
quoteArray[139]="\"Unlike Death Valley Days, Reagan, when you get a country cancelled, you get no re-runs, no residuals.\"  - Harlan Ellison"
quoteArray[140]="\"Use a pun, go to jail. (visuals included)\"  - Saturn Cafe \'them\' bathroom"
quoteArray[141]="\"Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth, that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bonds imposed by one's ignorance.\"  - G. Spencer Brown"
quoteArray[142]="\"I think at least a moment of childhood should be grand for everyone -- and learning should be the most exciting part. I want the learning to be that moment for you. Because maybe then you'll be able to make that moment last forever -- or at least recall it whenever in need.\"  - Cathy Ellis"
quoteArray[143]="\"Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near the Terrestrial Paradise.\"  - Garci Rodriguez Ordonez de Montalvo, circa 1510"
quoteArray[144]="\"The authorities at Ongar Library have received a number of complaints, about a card in the index file with an entry which read:  SEX:  SEE LIBRARIAN. This has now been changed. The new entry reads SEX:  FOR SEX ASK AT THE DESK.\"  - Eastern Gazette"
quoteArray[145]="\"Can we get Freudian about this?\"  - Look Out in Timpanogos cave, when a park ranger asked why people explore caves"
quoteArray[146]="\"True love-sickness is not desire for possession, but only a gentle unveiling of the world itself\"  - Robert Musil"
quoteArray[147]="\"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.\"  - Oscar Wilde"
quoteArray[148]="\"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.\"  - Linus Pauling"
quoteArray[149]="\"You see, Watson, but you do not observe.\"  - Sherlock Holmes"
quoteArray[150]="\"Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.\"  - Delmore Schwartz"
quoteArray[151]="\"Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!\"  - The fall"
quoteArray[152]="\"The business of the mind is first and foremost the pure joy of knowing and comprehending, the pure joy of consciousness.\"  - Anais Nin"
quoteArray[153]="\"I play with images.\"  - Einstein, when asked where his ideas came from"
quoteArray[154]="\"If there is a God, I reason, why are there such things as famine and daytime television?\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[155]="\"I was thrown out of college for cheating on my metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[156]="\"You know what the trouble with my life has been?  I'll tell you. I've got my shit together. I've >always< had my shit together. I just can't lift it.\"  - Burt Reynolds in The Longest Yard"
quoteArray[157]="\"If I'd ever wanted to be brief I'd have either become a poet or taken up selling Fruit of the Loom underwear.\"  - Harlan Ellison"
quoteArray[158]="\"Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you; fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.\"  - Edward Yashinsky"
quoteArray[159]="\"Whenever I am with very conventional people I feel like >barking<!\"  - a female painter"
quoteArray[160]="\"Human life is at once a conspiracy to prove us of small or no end, and a conspiracy of incidents and images to lead us to a beginning again.\"  - William Goyen"
quoteArray[161]="\"This book is dedicated to sensitive Americans.\r     May they create a sensitive America.\"\r- Anais Nin, dedication to \'The Novel of the Future\'"
quoteArray[162]="\"Is there anything safer than TV-style seriousness--i.e., delivering the conventional wisdom as if it were the deeply important truth?\"  - Pauline Kael"
quoteArray[163]="\"The meaning of a poem can only be another poem.\"  - Harold Bloom"
quoteArray[164]="\"Be one of those upon whom nothing is lost.\"  - Henry James"
quoteArray[165]="\"Imaginative writers are valuable colleagues and their testimony is to be rated very highly because they draw on sources that we have not yet made accessible to science. The portrayal of the psychic life of human beings is, of course, the imaginative writer's most special demand. He has always been the forerunner of science and thus scientific psychology, too.\"  - Sigmund Freud"
quoteArray[166]="\"He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk\r  Descending from the bus:\rHe looked again, and found it was\r  A Hippopotamus.\"\r  - Lewis Carroll"
quoteArray[167]="\"It seems to me that in real life, as here, it is precisely against the darkness of the world that comedy arises, and is best when that is not hidden.\"  - J.R.R. Tolkien"
quoteArray[168]="\"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is so.\"  - Cabell"
quoteArray[169]="\"Control-X gets rid of the bullshit.\"  - Jon Shemitz"
quoteArray[170]="\"Mo Rog\rGlonog,\rQuinba,\rHlin varr.\"\r  - a Lilliputian love poem"
quoteArray[171]="\"July 8th, 1 p.m. Sighted a vertical, animate object on the loch shore, near Inverfarigaig, from a range of fifty yards. It has a whitish short neck and small rounded head with a conical snout that reflects sunlight and clicks continually. The object is approximately six feet long when fully extended and appears to have four appendages, the upper pair of which move up and down like elongated flippers. The object appears to be vertabrate, may be mammal or amphibian, and produces shrill, hideous noises when alarmed. It impressed this observer as an unclean, exceedingly loathsome beast, an abomination... (Signed)  \'Nessie\'\"\r \r- A Loch Ness Monster \'sighting report\' turned in by Allison MacDonald"
quoteArray[172]="\"Let us pay each other the compliment of not lying to each other.\"  - Anais Nin"
quoteArray[173]="\"I'm a lazy fellow. I work up to a certain point, but beyond that point, I say the hell with it.\"  - Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[174]="\"I've got enough attitude to kill every person in New Jersey.\"  - Lou Reed"
quoteArray[175]="\"Because I bite the heads off things, doesn't mean I don't fall in love.\"  - Ozzy Osbourne"
quoteArray[176]="\"Progressive conservatives should pass a law making it unlawful not to use a computer.\"  - William F. Buckley, Jr."
quoteArray[177]="\"Go forth and unify some fields.\"  - Jon Shemitz"
quoteArray[178]="\"If you have a secret self--read on.\"  - Erica Jong"
quoteArray[179]="\"It is what you aspire to rather than what you attain that brings into being even what you do attain. Never set your sights too low.\"  - Miriam Allen De Ford"
quoteArray[180]="\"The painter knows things by sight; the writer, who knows them by name, profits by a prejudice in his favor.\"  - Georges Braque"
quoteArray[181]="\"If you are to do research on human subjects you must first do the experiments upon yourself. This procedure will assure that you will appreciate the limits within which one must work. This method will also give you insight regarding your own motives, and assure that you will devise the least damaging, least uncomfortable, most efficient, and least dangerous methods.\"  - J.B.S. Haldane"
quoteArray[182]="\"We must have books which come upon us like ill fortune and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves ... A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us.\"  - Kafka"
quoteArray[183]="\"Gratitude is Heaven itself.\"  - Blake"
quoteArray[184]="\"Eternity. Believe it or not, it's as real as shit.\"  - Aldous Huxley"
quoteArray[185]="\"It is pleasant to believe oneself unhappy when in fact one is merely idle and bored.\"  - Alfred de Musset"
quoteArray[186]="\"Take 3/4 cup each of white sugar, brown sugar and unsweetened cocoa powder and stir in a bowl together until the cocoa lumps are all ground into the sugars.\r \rCream in two and a half sticks of butter.\r \rMix in a teaspoon of vanilla and two eggs.\r \rStir in two and a fourth cups of flour, and a teaspoon of baking soda.\r \rMix in a 12 ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips, and a cup of walnuts, pecans or almonds if you like them.\r \rDrop blobs (walnut-sized to egg-sized, depending on how big you want the cookies to be) of this mixture onto a cookie sheet, and bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies."
quoteArray[187]="\"I think I walked in on an ongoing conversation. Hello.\"  - Janet Weis"
quoteArray[188]="\"The shortest distance between two puns is a straightline.\"  - Richard Rae"
quoteArray[189]="\"Art must recreate, in full consciousness, and by means of signs, the total life of the universe, that is to say, the soul where the varied dream we call the universe is played.\"  - Teodor de Wyzewa"
quoteArray[190]="\"Truth tables are Boole shit.\"  - Filbo"
quoteArray[191]="\"... a smile you might find on the Mona Lisa after her first martini.\"  - Karla Kuskin describing Dr. Suess's characters"
quoteArray[192]="\"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.\"  - Einstein"
quoteArray[193]="\"Any man can make the sun into a yellow ball. Ah, but to make a yellow ball into a sun!\"  - Picasso"
quoteArray[194]="\"You forgot we were young and we did a great deal in a year.\"  - Picasso"
quoteArray[195]="\"There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money either.\"  - Robert Graves"
quoteArray[196]="\"Children of the future age\rReading this indignant page\rKnow that in a former time\rLove, sweet love, was called a crime\"\r-  William Blake"
quoteArray[197]="\"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.\"  - Robert Benchley"
quoteArray[198]="\"Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost.\rThe beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold.\rHerman Melville at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat.\rPoe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics.\rThe Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.\"\r \r- Nabokov listing the scenes from the past he would like to have witnessed on film"
quoteArray[199]="\"Those who forget the movies of the past are condemned to see remakes.\"  - Guillermo Cabrera Infante"
quoteArray[200]="\"There's no use my telling you in detail the cunning I used to succeed in returning to the Continent of the Birds. In the strips it would be told with one of those tricks that work well only in drawings. (The frame is empty. I arrive. I spread paste on the upper right-hand corner. I sit down in the lower left-hand corner. A bird enters, flying, from the left, at the top. As he leaves the frame, his tail becomes stuck. He keeps flying and pulls after him the whole frame stuck to his tail, with me sitting at the bottom, allowing myself to be carried along. Thus I arrive at the land of the Birds. If you don't like this story you can think up another one:  the important thing is to have me arrive there.)\"  - Italo Calvino"
quoteArray[201]="\"Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,\rMy embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.\rFor it the nebula cohered to an orb,\rThe long strata piled to rest it on,\rVast vegetables gave it sustenance,\rMonstrous sauroids transplanted it in their mouths and deposited it with care.\"\r \r- Walt Whitman"
quoteArray[202]="\"Ruler:  Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader?\rCandidate:  I do.\rRuler:  Do you promise to observe a seemly moderation in the use of Trap-Doors, Chinamen ... and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science?\rCandidate:  I do.\"\r \r- initiation oath of the Detection Club (founded by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and others)"
quoteArray[203]="\"I made the map of an island; it was elaborately and (I thought) beautifully colored; the shape of it took my fancy beyond expression; it contained harbours that pleased me like sonnets; and with the unconsciousness of the predestined, I ticketed my performance 'Treasure Island'... as I paused upon my map of 'Treasure Island,' the future character [sic] of the book began to appear there visibly among imaginary woods; and their brown faces and bright weapons peeped out upon me from unexpected quarters as they passed to and fro, fighting and hunting treasure, on these few square inches of a flat projection. The next thing I knew I had some papers before me and was writing out a list of chapters ... the map was most of the plot.\"\r- Robert Louis Stevenson explaining how he got the idea for \'Treasure Island\'."
quoteArray[204]="\"It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.\"  - Alfred Adler"
quoteArray[205]="\"I cannot afford to waste my time making money.\"  - Louis Agassiz"
quoteArray[206]="\"Reality isn't all there is, after all.\"  - Isaac Asimov"
quoteArray[207]="\"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.\"  - Emerson"
quoteArray[208]="\"God give me unclouded eyes and freedom from haste. God give me quiet and relentless anger against all pretense and all pretentious work and all work left slack and unfinished. God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise until my observed results equal my calculated results, or, in pious glee, I discover and assault my error. God give me strength not to trust to God.\"  - Sinclair Lewis, \'scientist's credo\'"
quoteArray[209]="\"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.\"  - George Jean Nathen"
quoteArray[210]="\"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoothe pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.\"  - Isaac Newton"
quoteArray[211]="\"It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.\"  - Mendelsohn"
quoteArray[212]="\"To measure the path of a ghost who haunts your block, calculate the square root of minus one.\"  - Carol Jackson"
quoteArray[213]="\"My memory has been shredded.\"  - Lt. Col. Oliver North"
quoteArray[214]="\"The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.\"  - Anatole France"
quoteArray[215]="\"Isn't it true that you accosted your wife's boss at a party and called him a \'cultural garbage can\' because he couldn't tell the difference between B.B. King and Albert King?\"  - an attorney on \'Divorce Court\'"
quoteArray[216]="\"Live long in phosphor.\"  - MajorHavoc"
quoteArray[217]="\"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.\"  - Alice Roosevelt Longworth"
quoteArray[218]="\"... it seems to be a law of language that happiness, like goodness, is almost impossible to describe, while conflict, like evil, is all too easy to depict.\"  - W.H. Auden"
quoteArray[219]="\"President Reagan and OAS Secretary General Joao Clemente Baena Soares work with device that translates Reagan's speech into English.\"  - photo caption in the Santa Cruz Sentinel"
quoteArray[220]="\"Dylan Thomas, speaking before a New York film society:  \'I know there >is< such a thing as poetry in film. I can't give you a scholarly definition, but I can give you an instance. I remember once a scene in which Laurel pushed Hardy down the stairs ... \' (he laughs) \' ... Ah, but I can't describe it. It would have to be seen. I say this only; that it was genuine poetry in every sense.\'"
quoteArray[221]="\"I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was:  'If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?'  I put the question to him in the presence of his wife and child, and he replied:  'What?  Destroy my library? -- Never!'\"  - Bertrand Russell and Bob Trevelyan"
quoteArray[222]="\"Happiness isn't everything, you know, you can be perfectly happy without it.\"  - Jeremy Bernstein, paraphrased"
quoteArray[223]="\"A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper tha other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.\"  - GBS"
quoteArray[224]="\"... the mind's eye is more or less a magic lantern, and that the street is full of normally sane people who have hallucinations of all sorts which they believe to be part of the normal permanent equipment of all human beings.\"  - GBS"
quoteArray[225]="\"It's from Casablanca, I've been waiting all my life to say it.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[226]="\"I'm sick and tired of people who are mad as hell.\"  - Mark Slackmeyer"
quoteArray[227]="\"As Sidney always says, marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.\"  - Beatrice Webb"
quoteArray[228]="\"My advice to anyone who wishes to write is to know all the >very< best literature by heart, and ignore the rest as completely as possible.\"  - Bertrand Russell"
quoteArray[229]="\"The American people are going to be speaking out, and we'll see whether they side with Doonesbury or the Reagan-Bush message.\"  - George Bush"
quoteArray[230]="\"I'm very good at the glib remark that may not mean something if you examine it closely.\"  - Lou Reed"
quoteArray[231]="\"It's not such a bad piece of writing, that last sentence. I've seen worse in books that sell for five dollars.\"  - Groucho"
quoteArray[232]="\"And now that the subject of sex has been disposed of, let's see what else there is.\"  - Groucho"
quoteArray[233]="\"The >tachyons< were clever, but this is >stupid<.\"  - Jon Osterman"
quoteArray[234]="\"The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to Hell.\"  - Humphrey Bogart"
quoteArray[235]="\"I'll start off with a question I don't think you've ever been asked:  If your own personal Utopia were realized, would you still feel somehow that you were an imposter?\"  - Paul Krassner"
quoteArray[236]="\"This book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.\"  - Lichtenberg"
quoteArray[237]="\"Men of the same profession never gather together except to conspire against the general public.\"  - Adam Smith"
quoteArray[238]="\"Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again. Beethoven, allegedly"
quoteArray[239]="\"You would not expect a Martian to be named Smith. (Say -- how about a story about a Martian named 'Smith?'  Ought to make a good short. Hmmm --)\"  - Heinlein, in a 1952 article \'Ray Guns and Rocket Ships\'"
quoteArray[240]="\"Though I may lack wealth and grace and charm, I do so in a special and superior way.\"  - John Collier"
quoteArray[241]="\"For many of us, a library card is the first symbol we acquire, as children, of our being separate persons, with freedom of individual choice and a capacity for responsible action. -- The New Yorker \'The Talk of the Town\'"
quoteArray[242]="\"At a distance, you fool others; close at hand, just yourself. -- Yiddish proverb"
quoteArray[243]="\"Surely one of the means of learning to know the world as alive with symbol and meaning is to cultivate the art of taking things literally\"  - Ursula K. Le Guin"
quoteArray[244]="\"I am proud of what I write, and I spend hours and hours in total discipline. When I do not write, I often talk nonsense, and I do so about anything I feel like, and that is me, and that is all there is to it.\"  - Jimmy Breslin"
quoteArray[245]="\"The only way to understand what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.\"  - Voltaire"
quoteArray[246]="\"Any advice, ideas or suggestions about writing from people not in the creative world should be staunchly ignored and the damaging mental vibrations quelled with a good hot fudge sundae.\"  - Nancy Winslow Parker"
quoteArray[247]="\"Crime, like disease, is not interesting:  it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. It is what men do at their best, with good intentions, and what normal men and women find that they must and will do in spite of their intentions, that really concern us.\"  - GBS"
quoteArray[248]="\"Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.\"  - Douglas Adams"
quoteArray[249]="\"Facts are stupid things.\"  - Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[250]="\"The intellect of man is forced to choose\rPerfection of the life, or of the work,\rAnd if it take the second must refuse\rA heavenly mansion, raging in the dark\"\r \r- Yeats"
quoteArray[251]="\"There are places you can go into, and places you can go out of; but the one place, if you do but find it, where you may go out and in both, is home.\"  - George MacDonald's raven"
quoteArray[252]="\"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing, turn out your toes as you walk, and remember who you are!\"  - the Red Queen's advice"
quoteArray[253]="\"No one can read an autobiography which describes a time, a country, a class familiar to him without starting to compose his own.\"  - W.H. Auden"
quoteArray[254]="\"We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.\"  - Cesare Pavese"
quoteArray[255]="\"Science fiction is the one element in my life responsible for my not being a racist or cultural bigot.\"  - Isaac Bonewits"
quoteArray[256]="\"The Anthropic Principle says that laws of nature are explained if it can be established that they must be as they are in order to allow the existence of theoretical physicists to speculate about them.\"  - Freeman Dyson"
quoteArray[257]="\"Accept me for what I am and I'll accept you for what you're accepted as.\"  - Christopher Nolan"
quoteArray[258]="\"The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.\"  - T.H. Huxley"
quoteArray[259]="\"This whole Iran/contra scandal would never have happened if Ronald Reagan were alive.\"  - Henry Kissinger to Dan Rather"
quoteArray[260]="\"It was colder than a cop's balls.\"  - A witch, after participating in a nude ceremony at an state park in Oregon."
quoteArray[261]="\"Changing a diaper can change your life. For instance, I don't bite my fingernails anymore.\"  - Richie Minervini"
quoteArray[262]="\"I remember, when I was a teenager, thinking there was no point in going on, but then I realized that life is just an endless series of embarrassments and I'd hate to miss out on all that.\"  - Errol Morris"
quoteArray[263]="\"If it's awe you want, drop your jaw right here.\"  - Jon Shemitz"
quoteArray[264]="\"It's deja vu all over again.\"  - Yogi Berra"
quoteArray[265]="\"For an instant I think I >saw<. I >saw< the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.\"  - Carlos Casteneda"
quoteArray[266]="\"I tell you, as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. This is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness and clearer self-understanding.\"  - GBS"
quoteArray[267]="\"Positive thinking can kill you.\"  - Reverend Ivan Stang"
quoteArray[268]="\"It begins to seem that making sense is a skill not unlike the playing of the violin. It can, of course, be done, but no one simply falls into the habit of playing the violin.\"  - R. Mitchell"
quoteArray[269]="\"To pass the time, I was reduced to thinking about ideas like what I would do if I had a hundred million dollars.\"  - Ian Frazier"
quoteArray[270]="\"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything that I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.\"  - Coco Chanel"
quoteArray[271]="\"Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.\"  - Einstein"
quoteArray[272]="\"For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.\"  - Einstein"
quoteArray[273]="\"I am the greatest man in the world; indeed I am >so< great that I can afford great generosity:  I encourage all others to adopt the >delusion< that they are as great as I. If they truly thought that they were themselves the greatest, they too would be as generous; and then we would all be able to >humor< each other, in peace, for none would feel threatened by the now-harmless delusions of everyone else.\"  - Dr. Philo Drummond"
quoteArray[274]="\"A diarist is a writer who watches himself watching himself.\"  - Edward Robb Ellis"
quoteArray[275]="\"Thinking always of trying to do more brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible.\"  - Henry Ford"
quoteArray[276]="\"the people who most often say \'There's no such thing as a free lunch\' are often those on expense accounts.\"  - Chroma"
quoteArray[277]="\"Those who say \'An artist does his best work when hungry\' are usually neither.\"  - Affa"
quoteArray[278]="\"Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold and what we may buy? ... Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?\"  - Thomas Jefferson"
quoteArray[279]="\"Writing really isn't like any other kind of work, for it must come from a great emotional upheaval in the soul, and if that upheaval is not present, it must come from the work of any other writer which happens to be handy and easily imitated.\"  - Robert Benchly"
quoteArray[280]="\"First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.\"  - Mark Twain"
quoteArray[281]="\"Who ordered this many protons, anyway?\"  - Anthony Zee"
quoteArray[282]="\"... the delerious are the happiest, most productive people on earth.\"  - Jeanne Carstensen"
quoteArray[283]="\"The only people that should use the word \'we\' are editors, kings, and persons with tapeworms.\"  - Mark Twain"
quoteArray[284]="\"gossip made tedious by morality -- Oscar Wilde's definition of \'scandal\'"
quoteArray[285]="\"I like both kinds of people with blue hair.\"  - Penn Jillette"
quoteArray[286]="\"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.\"  - Cicero"
quoteArray[287]="\"Regularly rereading favorite books has always been one of the quasi-religious ceremonies with which I occupy my life.\"  - Fritz Leiber"
quoteArray[288]="\"God is real, unless declared integer.\"  - Slogan on a button"
quoteArray[289]="\"Everybody who's for abortion was at one time themselves a feces. And that includes all of you out there. You were once a feces.\"  - Peter Grace, at a dinner attended by Reagan and 900 members of the Catholic hierarchy"
quoteArray[290]="\"AIDS is a virus; >George Bush< is a punishment from God.\"  - Jaffe Cohen"
quoteArray[291]="\"[to] make sure that everybody who has a job wants a job.\"  - George Bush announcing the top goal of his presidency"
quoteArray[292]="\"America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.\"  - George Bush"
quoteArray[293]="\"Life is like a sewer. You get out of it what you put into it.\"  - Tom Lehrer"
quoteArray[294]="\"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.\"  - Oscar Wilde"
quoteArray[295]="\"let's use computers for more important and less dangerous things than playing this high-speed, high-tech, high-stakes game of chicken with Murphy's law [SDI], things such as communicating with the Russians, or making art, or discovering, as a fellow computerist recently did, that the letters in \'George Herbert Walker Bush\' can be rearranged to spell ... \'Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.\'\"  - Douglas McKenna"
quoteArray[296]="\"... precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense.\"  - Eric Temple Bell"
quoteArray[297]="\"One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race in the past century is to put \'common sense\' where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty cannister labeled \'discarded nonsense.\'\"  - Eric Temple Bell"
quoteArray[298]="\"As a compuphobia counselor for ten years, I have learned that the world is divided into three kinds of people -- those who count and those who can't.\"  - mickRacky"
quoteArray[299]="\"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.\"  - Alfred North Whitehead"
quoteArray[300]="\"It's a piss-poor country when a man is judged on the quality of his urine and not on the quality of his work.\"  - \'Unidentified American Laborer\'"
quoteArray[301]="\"I wish I were only visiting this planet.\"  - John Obendorfer"
quoteArray[302]="\"I try to nudge that fine line between good taste and throwing up in your hat.\"  - Baxter Black on his approach to poetry"
quoteArray[303]="\"THIS IS NOT AN AD! SEND NO MONEY! Details $1\"  - another Church of the SubGenius ad"
quoteArray[304]="\"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.\"  - H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[305]="\"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful; provided you get between the right man and the right woman.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[306]="\"For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon's surface, and that half the people's right brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it's interesting again.\"  - Rudy Rucker"
quoteArray[307]="\"For years, I suspected that various prohibitions on private activities would turn us into a nation of criminals. Now I realize that it's much worse than that:  it has turned us into a nation of liars.\"  - Russell Lawrence"
quoteArray[308]="\"It only takes a soundtrack to turn real life into a movie.\"  - Kyle Gann"
quoteArray[309]="\"The difference between fantasy\rand science fiction\ris that one has\rhonest politicians\rscrupulous lawyers,\rand altruistic doctors,\rwhile the other\ronly has beings from outer space\"\r \r- William John Watkins"
quoteArray[310]="\"It is context that makes knowledge out of data.\"  - Maureen O'Hara (the psychologist, not the actress)"
quoteArray[311]="\"The first cup moistens my lips and throat, the second cup breaks my lonliness, the third cup searches my barren entrails but to find therein some five thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration -- all the wrong life passes away through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified; the sixth calls me to the realm of the immortals. The seventh cup -- ah, but I could take no more. I only feel the breath of cool wind that rises in my sleeves.\"  - Tang poet Lu T'ung writing about drinking tea"
quoteArray[312]="\"Solitude is being with oneself. Loneliness is being with no one.\"  - Hannah Arendt"
quoteArray[313]="\"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.\"  - slogan on a button"
quoteArray[314]="\"You haven't really learned to swear until you have programmed a computer.\"  - \'Charnock's law paraphrased by Vernon Lee"
quoteArray[315]="\"My fiftieth year had come and gone,\rI sat, a solitary man,\rIn a crowded London shop,\rAn open book and empty cup\rOn the marble table top.\r \rWhile on the shop and street I gazed\rMy body of a sudden blazed;\rAnd twenty minutes more or less\rIt seemed, so great my happiness,\rThat I was blessed and could bless.\"\r \r- Yeats"
quoteArray[316]="\"Everyone is >not< entitled to their opinion. Everyone is entitled to an >informed< opinion.\"  - Harlan Ellison"
quoteArray[317]="\"I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it.\"  - Edgar Allen Poe"
quoteArray[318]="\"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.\"  - William James"
quoteArray[319]="\"These may or may not arrive broken. Some people like them that way. In any case, we're not responsible.\"  - Disclaimer on a box of artists' crayons"
quoteArray[320]="\"The fact that the flag is low in calories, sodium and cholesterol and loaded with fiber makes this [stir-frying a flag] a dangerously attractive desecration for the American middle class -- many of whom have dietary restrictions and most of whom have unused ten-year-old woks in their closets.\"  - Bruce Handy"
quoteArray[321]="\"... few people know what to do with a computer. They decide that running an operating system is a substitute for doing productive work.\"  - Chuck Moore"
quoteArray[322]="\"When friends of mine die it is always a big surprise to me (and I guess to them too). Before about 1958 nobody did such a thing; lately they are dropping like flies, and I want you to know I am getting pretty tired of it. Enough is enough, fellows! Knock it off now!\"  - Damon Knight"
quoteArray[323]="\"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John Von Neumann"
quoteArray[324]="\"The Mars mission won't be cheap -- the cost is currently estimated at $400 billion, not including reality -- but the potential benefits are enormous. For openers, we will earn as a nation, more than 500 million Frequent Flyer miles.\"  - Dave Barry"
quoteArray[325]="\"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I don't know exactly what they are!\"  - Alice"
quoteArray[326]="\"How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.\"  - Hesse"
quoteArray[327]="\"If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.\"  - Charles Mingus"
quoteArray[328]="\"Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.\"  - Tolkien"
quoteArray[329]="\"When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.\"  - \'Heard after a showing of a video aimed at marketing types\'"
quoteArray[330]="\"Superstition brings bad luck.\"  - Raymond Smullyan"
quoteArray[331]="\"I hate quotations.\"  - Emerson"
quoteArray[332]="\"Criticism is prejudice made plausible.\"  - H.L. Mencken"
quoteArray[333]="\"The next time someone starts quoting statistics at you, just remind them that 78% of people who quote statistics make them up.\"  - Mik Butler"
quoteArray[334]="\"Actually, I think I should be in the BBS book of world records as the person who has managed to be on the boards the longest without contributing a single cookie.\"  - DSA"
quoteArray[335]="\"Having a car and money kind of ruins the fun of it all.\"  - Damian"
quoteArray[336]="\"Notice I'm always up at night, and I like the taste of my blood, and I'm always saying \'Bleah!\'?  Weird, ain't I?\"  - The Keeper of the Pen"
quoteArray[337]="\"Comments attributed to, or about persons other than myself were used without the knowledge or permission of those persons, and may be yet more demonstrations that my memory is like a steel trap [very destructive to things caught in it]. - James D. Nicoll"
quoteArray[338]="\"Fall down seven times, get up eight times.\"  - Zen saying"
quoteArray[339]="\"The novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.\"  - Diane Johnson"
quoteArray[340]="\"Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.\"  - Dave Farber"
quoteArray[341]="\"This is the one thing I find that's common to all lives in all history ... problems, problems, problems. But I think a great many people think of problems as being bad luck, and they try to have a problemless life ... but they never really do. Solving problems doesn't get you to Utopia. If you are any good at solving problems, it gets you qualified for bigger problems to solve. The problem is a gift.\"  - Buckminster Fuller"
quoteArray[342]="\"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.\"  - Charles McCabe"
quoteArray[343]="\"Steve were you trying to use vi again?  How many times have we told you not to use vi?  Bad Steve, no vi, you remember what happened last time! Remember when you forgot to press \'i\' before typing and vaporized several third world countries?  I thought you would have learned by now.\"  - Paranormal Hamster"
quoteArray[344]="\"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.\"  - Poul Anderson"
quoteArray[345]="\"It's pure research, which is about creating more problems than you solve.\"  - Mark Pauline"
quoteArray[346]="\"If you can't stand solitude, perhaps you bore others too.\"  - Mark Twain"
quoteArray[347]="\"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.\"  - E.B. White"
quoteArray[348]="\"More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.\"  - Woody Allen"
quoteArray[349]="\"All I ask is to have my own way in everything.\"  - GBS"
quoteArray[350]="\"Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.\"  - Ashleigh Brilliant"
quoteArray[351]="\"The chief enemy of creativity is \'good\' taste.\"  - Picasso"
quoteArray[352]="\"Just as we get really good at this, we run out of planets.\"  - a Voyager scientist"
quoteArray[353]="\"Let others praise the ancient times, I'm glad I was born in these.\"  - Ovid, circa 53 B.C."
quoteArray[354]="\"The best thing for being sad is to learn something.\"  - Merlyn, in \'The Once and Future King\'"
quoteArray[355]="\"I stand by all the misstatements.\"  - Dan Quayle (natch!)"
quoteArray[356]="\"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.\"  - Ronald Reagan"
quoteArray[357]="\"The frustrations of California are not that you don't get what you want, but (other tooth of the old saw) that you /do/ get what you want. Plus the time to wonder:  \'Is that all there is?\'\"  - David Berreby"
quoteArray[358]="\"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?\"  - Ursula LeGuin"
quoteArray[359]="\"Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.\"  - Do you know who said this?"
quoteArray[360]="\"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.\"  - Helen Keller"
quoteArray[361]="\"Sure we'll have Fascism, but it will come disguised as Americanism.\"  - Huey P. Long"
quoteArray[362]="\"Hell, if you understand everything I say, you'd be me!\"  - Miles Davis"
quoteArray[363]="\"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.\"  - Anton Chekhov"
quoteArray[364]="\"Often it is only very slightly more disagreeable to tell the truth than to lie; about as difficult as drinking bitter rather than sweet coffee; and yet I still have a strong inclination to lie.\"  - Wittgenstein"
quoteArray[365]="\"I want to make some people laugh and I want to annoy Republicans as much as I can.\"  - Matt Groening"
quoteArray[366]="\"If they say\rThey don't sing the blues\rDon't know the blues\rDon't know why >you're< blue\rThey lie\rand their theory of electromagnetism is seriously flawed\rTo boot.\"\r \r- Kenneth Freeman"
quoteArray[367]="\"Drug addicts are the biggest threat to our Constitutionally guaranteed liberties that our country has seen in hundreds of years. To see a comparable threat, one would have to examine the subversion caused in Eastern Massachussetts in the 1600's by witches.\"  - John Sulak"
quoteArray[368]="\"We're all in drag, only not all of us know it.\"  - Frank Maloney's ex, Stephen"
quoteArray[369]="\"Seeing is forgetting the name of that which one sees.\"  - Paul Valery"
quoteArray[370]="\"What E.F. Schumacher said when people called him a \'crank\':  I don't mind at all. A crank is a low-cost, low-capital tool. It can be used on a small scale. It is non-violent. And it makes revolutions."
quoteArray[371]="\"Sometimes we forget America isn't just a marketplace. It's a democracy.\"  - Herb Chao Gunther"
quoteArray[372]="\"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.\"  - Thomas Edison"
quoteArray[373]="\"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.\"  - Gertrude Stein"
quoteArray[374]="\"I thought of it as a career move!\"  - Madonna, about losing her virginity"
quoteArray[375]="\"I never said I want to be /left/ alone. I only said I want to be /let/ alone. There is a world of difference.\"  - Greta Garbo"
quoteArray[376]="\"I'd give you a reality lecture but I'm listening to a country station.\"  - Kenneth Freeman"
quoteArray[377]="\"Abandon all hope, ye who press enter here.\"  - \'Seen in a button catalog\'"
quoteArray[378]="\"Take away the right to say \'fuck\' and you take away the right to say \'fuck the government.\'\"  - Lenny Bruce"
quoteArray[379]="\"... what still passes for good taste -- the ability to distinguish oneself by the smallness of one's concerns ... - Simon Frith"
quoteArray[380]="\"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.\"  - George Orwell"
quoteArray[381]="\"To read of emotions that reflect our own is the only proof we have we are not mad.\"  - Kendall Hailey"
quoteArray[382]="\"If they don't see you when you are there, they won't notice when you leave -- or are taken.\"  - Martin Niemoller"
quoteArray[383]="\"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.\"  - Don Marquis"
quoteArray[384]="\"I'll tell you one type of person I don't respect:  someone who thinks they know better what I want than I do.\"  - Steve Dyer"
quoteArray[385]="\"When I'm really impressed I get so nervous I can't talk. Fortunately most of the people who work for me get so nervous they can't stop talking.\"  - Andy Warhol"
quoteArray[386]="\"America is closer to a salad bar than a melting pot.\"  - Amanda Walker"
quoteArray[387]="\"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what he does with what happens to him.\"  - Aldous Huxley"
quoteArray[388]="\"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.\"  - Herbert Swope"
quoteArray[389]="\"Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.\"  - Emerson"
quoteArray[390]="\"I'm simply trying to live a both/and life in an either/or world.\"  - Tom Robinson"
quoteArray[391]="\"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.\"  - Alfred Adler"
quoteArray[392]="\"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.\"  - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
quoteArray[393]="\"Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.\"  - Ewald Nyquist"
quoteArray[394]="\"Why do writers write?  Because it isn't there.\"  - Thomas Berger"
quoteArray[395]="\"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.\"  - Alan Keightley"
quoteArray[396]="\"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.\"  - Harold Aiken"
quoteArray[397]="\"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.\"  - Carl Sagan"
quoteArray[398]="\"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.\"  - G.K. Chesterton"
quoteArray[399]="\"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.\"  - Groucho"
quoteArray[400]="\"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\"  -  Amendment I"
quoteArray[401]="\"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.\"  - Amendment II"
quoteArray[402]="\"No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.\"  - Amendment III (probably the only amendment not being slashed away at right now)"
quoteArray[403]="\"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\"  - Amendment IV"
quoteArray[404]="\"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.\"  - Amendment V"
quoteArray[405]="\"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.\"  - Charles A. Beard"
quoteArray[406]="\"We all deserve a little joy and hope every day, even if it comes partly from talking to each other.\"  - Jess Anderson"
quoteArray[407]="\"It's your life, and you don't owe a soul the least explanation or justification. If someone has a problem with what you choose for yourself, just be real clear in your mind that it's >their< problem, not yours.\"  - Jess Anderson"
quoteArray[408]="\"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.\"  - Sam Brown"
quoteArray[409]="\"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.\"  - Richard Feynman"
quoteArray[410]="\"You know you are an adult when you realize that everyone you know is insane.\"  - Jon Carroll"
quoteArray[411]="\"no one is ever normal; they are just latent.\"  - Joe Chapman"
quoteArray[412]="\"I thought \'Normal\' was a setting on a washing machine.\"  - All right, who said this?"
quoteArray[413]="\"Always carry a book with you, because you never know when you might be arrested.\"  - Emma Goldman"
quoteArray[414]="\"Excuse me for not answering your letter, but I've been so busy not answering letters that I couldn't get around to not answering yours in time.\"  - Groucho"
quoteArray[415]="\"Did you ever fly a kite in bed?  Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?  Did you ever milk this kind of cow?  Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.\"  - Dr. Seuss"
quoteArray[416]="\"Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got!\"  - Janis Joplin"
quoteArray[417]="\"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.\"  - \'A Senior Pentagon official, quoted in The New Republic, on why U.S. military censors refused to releaser video footage of Iraqi soldiers being sliced in half by helicopter cannon fire.\'"
quoteArray[418]="\"Love is all you need.\"  - Lennon and McCartney\r\"Justice is all you need.\" - Abbie Hoffman\r\"Awareness is all you need.\" - Allen Ginsberg\r \rAnd what do YOU think?"
quoteArray[419]="\"Sometimes the best way to get through the system is to give it indigestion.\"  - David Christopher Rogers"
quoteArray[420]="\"\'Strange to fall in love with a geek.\'\r\'Yeah, they don't like bars, and you look at what they put on in the morning and think, 'You *bought* that?'\'\r\'And the puns.\'\rSigh. The puns.\rWe agreed it was mighty weird, to fall in love with a geek.\" -Max Meredith Vasilatos"
quoteArray[421]="\"I feel like people think of me as a Teddy Bear - I'd like them to think of me as an anatomically correct Teddy Bear.\"  - Albert Lunde"
quoteArray[422]="\"It is seldom necessary to fart into the telephone.\"  - Michael Kimball"
quoteArray[423]="\"There's really little that compares with a great kisser - all else seems to evolve from that skill!\"  - Ellie Cutler"
quoteArray[424]="\"If someone asks you \'Do you believe?\' and you do not answer \'In what?\' then you have written a blank check on your brain, and it shall surely come back marked \'insufficient funds\'.\"  - Orson Scott Card"
quoteArray[425]="\"Modern times are an awkward spectacle. On the one hand, our public selves compete for scarce window space, for the opportunity to see in and to where power is decided and used. On the other, private life recedes like a glacier, a translucent corner of heaven meant only to be photographed, never settled.\"  - Revel"
quoteArray[426]="\"Gee it is kind of fun when one's friends jump on you in the uh correct manner.\"  - Chroma"
quoteArray[427]="\"Gingerbread cookie with m&m's all over it.\""
quoteArray[428]="\"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.\"  - Georgia O'Keeffe"
quoteArray[429]="\"I know you wouldn't be so graceless as to accuse another of a sin you hadn't committed yourself :-), and of course, neither would I. :-)\"  - Jess Anderson"
quoteArray[430]="\"... when Bush appeared recently at a convention in Anaheim, the audience's questions and the president's answers were scripted -- and somebody had messed up the darned script. \'These questions!\' the president shouted afterward. \'We've got to get this thing sorted out here! Something's going awry here.\'  Meanwhile, a few blocks away at Disneyland, the animatronic Abe Lincoln was operating normally.\"  - from SPY magazine"
quoteArray[431]="\"I would like to share a piece of philosophical wisdom I saw today written on a piece of heavy machinery:\r \r\'Avoid Injury Or Death.\'\r \rSounds good to me.\"  - K. Lena Bennett"
quoteArray[432]="\"To tell you the truth, Dad, I'm going to hold your foot forever and ever.\"  - Sam"
quoteArray[433]="\"In a randomly infinite Universe, any event occurring here and now with finite probability must be occurring simultaneously at an infinite number of other sites in the Universe. It is hard to evaluate this idea any further, but one thing is certain:  if it is true then it is certainly not original!\"  - John Barrow and Frank Tipler"
quoteArray[434]="\"To be abandoned by a person is usually a bad thing, often a painful thing, and so forth, but to be abandoned by the computer that brings your email is *truly* awful, n'est-ce pas?\"  - Jess Anderson"
quoteArray[435]="\"In all my life, I have prayed but one prayer:  \'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.\'  And God granted it.\"  - Voltaire"
quoteArray[436]="\"A man's concepts should exceed his vocabulary -- else what's a metaphor?\"  - Plato Shrimp"
quoteArray[437]="\"One day you're a chicken fresh out of college, and in a blink of an eye, the only things left of your college days are your record collection and the cheezy furniture you still haven't got around to replacing.\"  - Steve Dyer"
quoteArray[438]="\"He does not know ecstasy who does not also know bitterness.\"  - Harry Partch"
quoteArray[439]="\"I take on about 50 times more than anyone can do, and I work at about 2 percent efficiency. So every day I'm fighting a factor of 2,500, and every day I fall eight years more behind. Ninety-eight percent of my time is wasted, just wasted.\"  - Murray Gell-Mann"
quoteArray[440]="\"Forget chasing rainbows ... it doesn't work. If you want rainbows, chase storms.\"  - David P. Burdette"
quoteArray[441]="\"Did you ever see a flying kitchen, with windshield wipers on it and built out of Legos?  Hahahahaha!\"  - Sam"
quoteArray[442]="\"The reward of a thing done well is to have done it.\"  - Emerson"
quoteArray[443]="\"It's hard to tell if you're a girl or a boy ... you look like a redhead.\"  - Sierra"
quoteArray[444]="\"The world is made up of *too many* insensitive, malicious people unworthy of my attention who by their every word and action declare themselves an enemy of who and what I am...and these people make decisions that affect my life. Fortunately, I have developed the self-confidence and strength to withstand these things, or I wouldn't be here today...but I'm *still pissed*, and I have every *right* to that anger.\"  - Carleton Cornish"
quoteArray[445]="\"There is no real quality of life; I don't want to be a part of this system anymore; It is a police state but people have been trained to believe it is law and order.\"  - why Jojo moved from the U.S. to Paris"
quoteArray[446]="\"God grant me the company of those who seek the truth, and God deliver me from those who have found it.\"  - Isaac Newton"
quoteArray[447]="\"These writers gave me myself, since they insisted on claiming me as a reader.\"  - Hilton Als"
quoteArray[448]="\"I pledge impertinence to the flag-waving\rOf the unindicted co-conspirators of America\rAnd to the Republicans for which I can't stand\rOne abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible\rWith liberty and justice forget it.\"\r \r- Bongo"
quoteArray[449]="\"One of the things that I most resent about the media's attention to Skin Heads and other neo-Nazi groups in the USA is that the media use them to sustain an illusion that White Supremacy and homophobia are at the fringe of our society: they are at its core.\"  - Louie Crew"
quoteArray[450]="\"I don't like to spread gossip, but what >else< can you do with it?\"  - Sandra Hereld"
quoteArray[451]="\"A restaurant is a whorehouse that does food instead of sex.\"  - Roger Lustig"
quoteArray[452]="\"Just remember the First Law of Sociology, it never fails:  \'Some do, and some don't.\'\"  - Paul Asente"
quoteArray[453]="\"Freedom is not something anybody can be given, freedom is something people take.\"  - James Baldwin"
quoteArray[454]="\"The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.\"  - Jess Anderson"
quoteArray[455]="\"It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.\"  - \'Oxford University Press, Edpress News"
quoteArray[456]="\"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.\"  - Bertolt Brecht"
quoteArray[457]="\"I'm an incorrigible punster, so please don't incorrige me.\"  - Alan Hamilton"
quoteArray[458]="\"If I don't drive around the park,\rI'm pretty sure to make my mark.\rIf I'm in bed each night by ten,\rI may get back my looks again.\rIf I abstain from fun and such,\rI'll probably amount to much;\rBut I shall stay the way I am,\rBecause I do not give a damn.\"\r \r- Dorothy Parker"
quoteArray[459]="\"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed ...\r \rThis is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.\"  - Eisenhower"
quoteArray[460]="\"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.\"  - Jodie Foster"

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