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Category: Quote

Posted on May 18, 2016

Where's Your Costume?

Jane ToppanThis is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
Christina Ricci

Posted on May 11, 2016

Genius, Wit and Spirit

Anker Grossvater erzählt eine Geschichte 1884
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

Posted on May 2, 2016

Monkey See, Monkey Do

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer

Makak neonatal imitation
“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
from His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

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Sideburns, for example, are named after the sideburn-wearing General Ambrose Burnside.
Customer: give me burnsides!
Barber: (lights blowtorch)
Customer: wait, what?
—The Ambition of a Potato

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