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18.01.2004
"He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed." - JJ Rousseau in Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloise

19.01.2004
"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification." - Karl Popper

20.01.2004
"Dear Enemy. May the Lord hate you and all your kind. May you be turned orange in hue. And may your head fall off at an awkward moment." - a curse from Blackadder

21.01.2004
"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam." - by Cato the Elder at the end of every speach he made. ("Moreover, I advise that Carthago should be destroyed.")

22.01.2004
"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." - Voltaire

23.01.2004
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." - William Butler Yeats in Anima Hominis

24.01.2004
"Blackadder: Baldrick, do you know what irony is?
Baldrick: Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made of iron." - Blackadder

25.01.2004
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." - Friedrich Nietzsche

26.01.2004
"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." - William Gibson