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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil
interests in 1914.  I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.  I helped in the raping
of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall
Street.  The record of racketeering is long.  I helped purify Nicaragua
for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912.  I
brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in
1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way
unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a
swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al
Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in
three districts.  I operated on three continents.
	-- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
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Why does everyone here have these incredibly cumbersome ways of
sending me messages?  Don't you people have e-mail? 
	-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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<sneakums> you can shove your facts
<sneakums> right up your fact-hole
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T-Rex: Or perhaps I don't want to say "I WANT TO GET MARRIED SOMEDAY"
       because if I never meet someone then I've FAILED at a life
       plan.  Much better to say "I WANT TO GET INTO A BOAT SOMEDAY"
       and then just sit in some dude's boat!  IN FACT, I'm going down
       to the docks right now!
T-Rex: LATER, suckers!
	-- Dinosaur Comics
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T-Rex: Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
	-- Dinosaur Comics
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When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.  True story.
	-- Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, How I Met Your
	Mother
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<edlang> that is 100% emad
<squinky> Impossible.  I have it on good authority that it's at least
          5% meat byproducts.
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<squinky> yeah, if there was a venn diagram, rap would be almost
          completely inside of hiphop
<yosemite> true
<yosemite> but hiphop is more like soul
<yosemite> and rap has people rapping
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I prefer to think of NASA's budget as a Strategic Awesomeness Reserve.
	-- Leonard Richardson
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I worked a long time ago at a school in a very conservative community,
and I was very young and very keen on establishing myself as the rebel.
On the first day of school I wore a yellow button on my shirt that said,
"Question Authority."  The kids literally didn't understand the concept.
They misread the syntax of it -- kids were asking me, "Who made you the
question authority?"
	-- Alfie Kohn
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        G'Kar: I would be dead if not for you.  You risked your life to
               save mine.
Londo Mollari: Yes, You would have done the same.
        G'Kar: Yes, but I am a better person.
	-- Babylon 5, The Fall of Centauri Prime
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* caycos was thinking more of your boss's family's late night orgies
<teferi> oh.
<teferi> goodness.
<teferi> that's a mental image I didn't need.
<caycos> Hi! I'm caycos!
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It's really something. It's so bad, maybe you should pool your money and
draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the
future, whenever you think you're sitting through a bad comedy, he could
shake his head, and chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know
what bad is.
	-- Roger Ebert on Police Academy, failing to anticipate the
	 marvelous advances in making movies suck that have occured
	 since 1984
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<baconite> squinky: did you win yet?
<squinky> yeah, once
<squinky> I don't remember how
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<sneakums> what are you talking about, jp always makes sense
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Um, I'm thinking... that a lot of my internal conflict and malaise comes
from the tension between the life I ACTUALLY want to live, and the
stories I'd love to be able to tell?
	-- T-Rex, Dinosaur Comics
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<Octal> Ever notice how the moonwalk is nothing like the way people walk on the moon?
<fxc> holy shit
<Dumont> MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON