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"I have seen the recent Star Wars movie: "Into the Darkness"."

A young astronomer who shall mercifully remain unnamed.

no need to be shy Don, you can just say if it was you

It was not me...

"Learning to love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde

'Life is not about arriving at your grave safely and in a well preserved body.
It's about skidding in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy Shit! What a ride!" ' - Hunter S Thompson

(tattood on my forearms)

- The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible- George Burns

- Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.- Victor Borge

- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.- Mark Twain

- By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.- Socrates

- I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.- Groucho Marx

- I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.- Zsa Zsa Gabor

- Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.- Alex Levine

- My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.- Rodney Dangerfield

- Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.- Spike Milligan

- Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.- Joe Namath

- I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then, it's time for my nap.- Bob Hope

- I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.- W. C. Fields

- We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.- Will Rogers

- Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.- Winston Churchill

- Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.- Phyllis Diller

- By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.- Billy Crystal

- And finally, the cardiologist's diet is this. If it tastes good, spit it out.

Don, " If it tastes good, spit it out." That's what my grandmother used to say.
"If I do it once, I'm a philosopher. If I do it twice, I'm a pervert." - Voltaire (After some of his friends invited him to an orgy.)
;)

"If we had twelve fingers, there’d be no middle finger to flip at people with whom you’ve run out of words to communicate." -
Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Hate blinds people. Love can read the writing on the remotest star." - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis.
Happy New Year to everyone.

From the Harry Potter-fanfic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

"There is no justice in the laws of Nature, Headmaster, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! We care! There is light in the world, and it is us!"

"All right," said Susan, "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable."
No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meet the rising ape.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?"
Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
Yes. Justice. Duty. Mercy. That sort of thing.
"They're not the same at all!"
Really? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged:
"Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?"
My point exactly.

Conversation between Death and Susan in Hogfather.

Yes, I recognized it, but it's not properly quoted unless DEATH'S LINES ARE IN SMALL CAPS.

Here's one of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes:

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

—Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

"Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people; before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as in how you choose to live and give." -Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey-D)

Oh that's a good one. *Facebooks*