Conditions May Apply

The large print giveth, 

and the small print taketh away.

 — Tom Waits

Q.E.D.

If ignorance is bliss, 

why aren't there more happy people?

Consensus

The fact that an opinion has been widely held 

is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; 

indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, 

a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

 — Bertrand Russell

Market Forces

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, 

the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

 — PJ O'Rourke

Mute Point

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

 — Tom Lehrer

The Generosity Of The Rich

I have long been of the opinion 

that if work were such a splendid thing 

the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

 — Bruce Grocott

Compare And Contrast

Nice people have to be bastards every once in a while 

so that others can fully appreciate their gentle, loving nature.

 — Dionisio

A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

 — Paul Beatty

Scientific American

Study finds that psychologists are hard-wired to think in terms of computer metaphors.

Schoolteacher Syndrome

The smugness that arises from not being smart enough to know you're not smart.

(cf morosoph:  a fool who thinks he’s cleverer than he is.)

"You are strangely troublesome."

Holiday Traffic

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 — Noelie Altito

Fear And Laughing

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, 

you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
 — Dame Edna Everage

Procrastination

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Lab Rats

Experience is what enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.

Memento Mori

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, 

which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

 — Nelson Mandela

Lest We Forget

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

 — Nelson Mandela

RIP

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, 

it is the United States of America.

 — Nelson Mandela

Dross

Caveat Lector

Bible Belt

Black & White

Scoop du Jour

Why Ethics Committees Attract Bullies

Ethicists issue the commands that they insist other people must obey.

Neoteny

Spooky

Selling Hope

Business Opportunity

Status Update

The Multiversity

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, 

that it is suspended between its position in the external world, 

with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, 

and the splendid world of our imagination.

 — Richard Hofstadter

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