# HG changeset patch # User HackBot # Date 1339087494 0 # Node ID 1457dbc9ebfc225cc2ba438ebc7063ef53c765a3 # Parent 25228a835ce1ad8b3b899baf9e6b2acec9dd74a3 pastefortunes diff -r 25228a835ce1 -r 1457dbc9ebfc paste/paste.2581 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/paste/paste.2581 Thu Jun 07 16:44:54 2012 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. + -- La Rochefoucauld +----- +Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-) + -- Larry Wall in <1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com> +----- +However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. +There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious +beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than +Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. +But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf +should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing +throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. +They are trying to force government leaders into following their position +100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a +particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of +money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political +preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be +a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who do +they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the +right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as +a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who +thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll +call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every +step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all +Americans in the name of "conservatism." + -- Senator Barry Goldwater, from the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981 +----- + ___ + _/ oo\ + ( \ -/__ + \ \__) + / \ + jgs / _\ + `"""""`` +----- +System going down in 5 minutes. +----- +No End + +When government is lazy and informal +The people are kind and honest; +When government is efficient and severe +The people are discontented and deceitful. +Good fortune follows upon disaster; +Disaster lurks within good fortune; +Who can say how things will end? +Perhaps there is no end. +Honesty is ever deceived; +Kindness is ever seduced; +Men have been like this for a long time. +So the sage is firm but not cutting, +Pointed but not piercing, +Straight but not rigid, +Bright but not blinding. + -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" +----- +"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a +cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken +----- + "I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of +that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put +more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it +might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not +otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be +otherwise.'" + -- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland" +----- +1893 The ideal brain tonic +1900 Drink Coca-Cola -- delicious and refreshing -- 5 cents at all + soda fountains +1905 Is the favorite drink for LADIES when thirsty -- weary -- despondent +1905 Refreshes the weary, brightens the intellect and clears the brain +1906 The drink of QUALITY +1907 Good to the last drop +1907 It satisfies the thirst and pleases the palate +1907 Refreshing as a summer breeze. Delightful as a Dip in the Sea +1908 The Drink that Cheers but does not inebriate +1917 There's a delicious freshness to the taste of Coca-Cola +1919 It satisfies thirst +1919 The taste is the test +1922 Every glass holds the answer to thirst +1922 Thirst knows no season +1925 Enjoy the sociable drink + -- Coca-Cola slogans +-----