# HG changeset patch # User HackBot # Date 1336682328 0 # Node ID 5a5aa9fe8746033247cf16961e2ca4322b9555f4 # Parent abef3845bec9173094836010d69c03fbe1cb5f5e pastefortunes diff -r abef3845bec9 -r 5a5aa9fe8746 paste/paste.15496 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/paste/paste.15496 Thu May 10 20:38:48 2012 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything. +Just in case. +----- +Words have a longer life than deeds. + -- Pindar +----- +If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible +and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But there is a kind +of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the +good. And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific community +ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, the +media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful. Every newspaper +in America has a daily astrology column. How many have even a weekly +astronomy column? And I believe it is also the fault of the educational +system. We do not teach how to think. This is a very serious failure that +may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the human +future. + -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87 +----- +O que não é lembrado nunca aconteceu. +----- + . . . . o o o o o + _____ o + ____==== ]OO|_n_n__][. + [________]_|__|________)< + oo oo 'oo OOOO-| oo\\_ + +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+-$1-+--+--+--+--+ +----- +Even a blind pig stumbles upon a few acorns. +----- +Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles +In children's circuses could stay their troubles? +There was a time they could cry over books, +But time has set its maggot on their track. +Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe. +What's never known is safest in this life. +Under the skysigns they who have no arms +Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost +Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best. + -- Dylan Thomas, "Was There A Time" +----- + //// `\ + C--O-O--D + | \ | + | `-' | + \ / +----- +A man sank into the psychiatrist's couch and said, "I have a +terrible problem, Doctor. I have a son at Harvard and another son at +Princeton; I've just gifted each of them with a new Ferrari; I've got +homes in Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and a co-op in New York; and I've +got a thriving ranch in Venezuela. My wife is a gorgeous young actress +who considers my two mistresses to be her best friends." + The psychiatrist looked at the patient, confused. "Did I miss +something? It sounds to me like you have no problems at all." + "But, Doctor, I only make $175 a week." +----- +-=Shopping trolly=- + + _ , + (_\______/_________ + \-|-|/|-|-|-|-|/ + \==/-|-|-|-|-/ + \/|-|-|-|,-' + \--|-''' + \_j________ + (_) (_) +-----