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Friedrich Nietzsche

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

Herbert Hoover

"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Tom Stoppard

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."

George Santayana

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

People are strange

Stupid, and downright ridiculous reasons actually given to the RSPCA for handing over animals:

• "My cat doesn't match my new carpet."
  
• "My dog doesn't match the new sofa."
  
• "I thought chinchillas only lived for two years - I don't want a pet that lives for 20."
  
• "I've got a new puppy that is too boisterous for our old dog - can you take the old dog away?"
  
• "Our kitten isn't playful enough with our children."
  
• "We don't want our three rabbits because they don't come out to greet us."
  
• "I've got two elderly terriers and I don't want them to get the new carpet dirty."
  
• "I'm going on holiday."
  
• "My dog keeps hiding my shoes."
  
• "Our cats sleep on the stairs. I don't want my daughter to trip over them when she comes to stay."
  
• "She hurts my legs when she wags her tail."
  
• "My dog barks a lot."
  
• "I've just bought a new leather sofa and I don't want the cat to scratch it."
  
• "Our dog gets jealous when we sit together."

*shakes head* Some people need a slap, lots of slaps actually.

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