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Her only flair is in her nostrils.
—Pauline Kael
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of
life, please press three.
—Alice Kahn
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Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
—Henry J. Kaiser
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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
—Henry J. Kaiser
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Penguins are just really marginal birds.
—Ed Kako, psychology professor
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If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.
—Arthur Kasspe
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
—Margo Kaufman
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
—Alan Kay
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
—John Keats
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
—John Keats
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
—John Keats
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The difference between common sense and paranoia is that common sense is
thinking everyone is out to get you. That's normal—they are. Paranoia
is thinking that they're conspiring.
—J. Kegler
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
—Garrison Keillor
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are
good-looking, and all the children are above average.
—Garrison Keillor
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It's very hard to predict things...especially the future.
—Professor Charles Kelemen
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This cultural mystique surrounding the biological function —you
realize humans are overly preoccupied with the subject.
—Kelinda the Kelvan, "By Any Other Name," "Star Trek"
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all: the apathy of human beings.
—Helen Keller
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to
smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
—Mary Ellen Kelley
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In like a dimwit, out like a light.
—Pogo (Walt Kelly)
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.
—Walt Kelly
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
—Pogo (Walt Kelly)
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
—Pogo (Walt Kelly)
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist
free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
—John F. Kennedy
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
—John F. Kennedy
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the
history of the world—or to make it the last.
—John F. Kennedy
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When I was young you never heard anything about Celtic music....But now
there's money to it and they call it Celtic. It's bloody ridiculous, to
tell you the truth.
—Norman Kennedy, Scottish folk singer
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy
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Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of
view.
—Obi-Wan Kenobi
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What is a magician but a practicing theorist?
—Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Time's fun when you're having flies.
—Kermit the Frog
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to
be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
—Jean Kerr
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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that
assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall
bladder you have also lost your mind.
—Jean Kerr
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the
morning feeling just plain terrible.
—Jean Kerr
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When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't
necessary think of chairs.
—Joan Kerr
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my
life there.
—Charles F. Kettering
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People are very open-minded about new things—as long as they're
exactly like the old ones.
—Charles F. Kettering
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do
the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
—John Maynard Keynes
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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
—John Maynard Keynes, dying words
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In the long run we are all dead.
—John Maynard Keynes
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any
reward.
—John Maynard Keynes
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
—John Maynard Keynes
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In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
—Nikita Khrushchev
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when
there are no rivers.
—Nikita Khrushchev
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I am part of all I have read.
—John Kieran
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
—Soren Kierkegaard
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid.
—Soren Kierkegaard
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love
harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him
from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to
overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy
necessary.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must use time creatively.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You
carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go....It's one
thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go
looking for it somewhere else.
—Barbara Kingsolver
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
—Rudyard Kipling
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
—Rudyard Kipling
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
—Rudyard Kipling
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much
trouble.
—Rudyard Kipling
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever
woman to manage a fool.
—Rudyard Kipling
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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig my grave and let me lie,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And laid me down with a will,
And this be the verse that you grave for me,
Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
—Rudyard Kipling
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling
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I don't believe it; I'm talking to a tree.
—Major Kira, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
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A little suffering is good for the soul.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," "Star Trek"
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A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his
entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Omega Glory," "Star Trek"
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A Vulcan can no sooner be disloyal than he can exist without
breathing.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Menagerie," "Star Trek"
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Actual war is a very messy business. Very, very messy business.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," "Star Trek"
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Another Armenia, Belgium...the weak innocents who always seem to be
located on a natural invasion route.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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Conquest is easy. Control is not.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror," "Star Trek"
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Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about. That's
what makes it a thing to be avoided.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," "Star Trek"
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Do you know the one—"All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer
her by ..." You could feel the wind at your back, about you...the sounds
of the sea beneath you. And even if you take away the wind and the water,
it's still the same. The ship is yours...you can feel her...and the stars
are still there.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," "Star Trek"
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Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Devil in the Dark," "Star Trek"
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Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say,
"Today I will be brilliant."
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," "Star Trek"
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I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim....Sounds like
fun.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Star Trek: Generations"
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I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell the truth.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver," "Star Trek"
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If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Space Seed," "Star Trek"
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Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Obsession," "Star Trek"
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Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Balance of Terror," "Star Trek"
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Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Metamorphosis," "Star Trek"
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Most legends have their basis in facts.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "And The Children Shall Lead," "Star
Trek"
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No more blah, blah, blah!
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Miri," "Star Trek"
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No one wants war.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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Not one hundred percent efficient, of course...but nothing ever is.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Metamorphosis," "Star Trek"
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One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice
without necessarily having to take it.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Dagger of the Mind," "Star Trek"
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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship
Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek
out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone
before.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Star Trek"
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The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of
play.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Shore Leave," "Star Trek"
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The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to
know each other.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius," "Star Trek"
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There are certain things men must do to remain men.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer," "Star Trek"
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There are some things worth dying for.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles," "Star
Trek"
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War isn't a good life, but it's life.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "A Private Little War," "Star Trek"
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[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings
with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we can stop
it. We can admit that we're killers...but we're not going to kill
today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill
today!
—Captain James T. Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon," "Star Trek"
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Without freedom of choice there is no creativity.
—Captain James T. Kirk, "The Return of the Archons," "Star
Trek"
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A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to
you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to
you about yourself.
—Lisa Kirk
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And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just
because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you
does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?
—Oleg Kiselev
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Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.
—Henry Kissinger
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad
reputation.
—Henry Kissinger
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little
longer.
—Henry Kissinger
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
—Henry Kissinger
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they
think it's their fault.
—Henry Kissinger
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
—Henry Kissinger
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Obsession like this underlies avid collectors' collecting habit whatever
it is that the collector collects. They would change plans, travel miles,
spend sleepless nights, and expend more than they can afford to add a
desired item to the collection. It occurs to me, too, that falling in love
is also like this—falling in love as opposed to being in love which
is free of this sense of pursuit.
—T. Kaori Kitao
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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
—Denise Klahn
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
—Joan Klempner
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It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that
cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be.
—Kleppner & Kolenhow, "An Introduction to Mechanics"
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If I ever stop laughing, I'm dead.
—Tom Knapp
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It was the haggis, a brownish lump sitting unobtrusively to one side of
the plate, that drew the most riveting attention....Some people approached
their haggis with extreme misgivings.
—Tom Knapp, reporting on a traditional Scottish dinner
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Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What's
wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?
—Tom Knapp
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
—Fletcher Knebel
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare
story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
—Erwin Knoll
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the
incomprehensible.
—Alfred A. Knopf
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It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the
devil when he is the only explanation of it.
—Ronald Knox
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
—Arthur Koestler
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If some day we are defeated, well, war has its fortunes, good and bad.
—Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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You speak of courage. Obviously you do not know the difference between
courage and foolhardiness. Always it is the brave ones who die, the
soldiers.
—Commander Kor, "Errand of Mercy," "Star Trek"
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Sanskrit, of course, is the most studly way to listento the news.
—Tom Kornack '98, on listening to the news in Nepal
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Television—a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor
well-done.
—Ernie Kovacs
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
—Jonathan Kozol
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Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have learned
when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee.
—W. S. Krabill
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
society.
—Krishnamurti
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God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.
—Kronecker
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us,
although the cockroach would miss us most.
—Joseph Wood Krutch
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is
alive?
—Irv Kupcinet
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from
coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
—Akira Kurosawa