Descartes walks into a bar and orders a drink. When he finishes it, the bartender asks "Another?"
Descartes says "I think not" and disappears.
>A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says.
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>The bartender promptly serves up a beer.
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>"How much will that be?" asks the neutron.
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>"For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
