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Loglan is fine for syllogisms, circuitry, and mathematical calculations, but lacks flavor. Useless for gossip or to whisper into girl’s ear.
Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.
I felt like a Cyborg with pleasure center switched on.
‘Mike, would you like to talk with a girl?’ ‘Girls are not-stupid?’ ‘Some girls are very not-stupid, Mike.’ ‘I would like to talk with a not stupid girl, Man.’
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
‘I must confess,’ said Prof, ‘that I find these conflicting reports very conflicting.’
Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
‘reality’ is a slippery notion.
Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die … and accepts his sentence undismayed.’
An earthworm expects to find a law, a printed law, for every circumstance. Even have laws for private matters such as contracts. Really. If a man’s word isn’t any good, who would contract with him? Doesn’t he have reputation?
Honorable Pamela Hyphen-Hyphen-Blueblood.
Women are amazing creatures – sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
Escape speed is not a vector quantity; it is scalar. A load bursting from a catapult at escape speed will not return to Earth no matter what its direction. Uh … two corrections: it must not be headed toward the Earth itself but at some part of the sky hemisphere, and it must have enough added velocity to punch through whatever atmosphere it still traverses.
Stu LaJoie is a good person to spend last minutes with, even if don’t turn out to be last.
‘We shall fight them on the surface, we shall fight them in the tubes, we shall fight them in the corridors! If die we must, we shall die free!’
‘If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend.’
