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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the
helm.
—Henrik Ibsen
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Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word
"lies."
—Henrik Ibsen
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
—Henrik Ibsen
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
freedom and liberty.
—Henrik Ibsen
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There is always something to upset the most careful of human
calculations.
—Ihara Saikaku
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
—George Iles
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The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years
is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds.
—"The Indianapolis Star"
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So far, no one has opted to publish my sequel to "the Book of Mormon,"
"The Book of Mormon 2 (this time it's PERSONAL)." This one is set in the
roaring twenties, with the lord JC as a smooth-talkin' private eye, livin'
on the mean streets of Chicago. Basically, he spends the book battling
the Mob, which really sucks for the Mob, let me tell you. He's got tha
phat "gonnections."
—Greg Ingber '99, on _swat.talk
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To put it another way... How long must one's head remain up one's own ass
before realizing that there is little of interest up there?
—Greg Ingber '99
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Wouldn't it be just like the universe to delay the apocalypse until
finals?
—Greg Ingber '99
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common
hatred of its neighbors.
—W. R. Inge
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never
happened and those which do not matter.
—W. R. Inge
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
—W. R. Inge
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
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Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the
first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A
general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical
fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives
don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their
knives.
—Molly Ivins