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I'm a bad boyfriend, I'll give you that. But at least I'm a decent human being, unlike everybody else.

Rob Reed

Basically the reason people talk is so they can lie. Otherwise it wouldn't be necessary.

Rob Reed

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a great quote from Howard Zinn, thanks to an email from my mom:

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

I dedicate this quote to Rob Reed

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm supposed to add now that this quote doesn't mean that Rob is a "meanie". It just means that he would appreciate this quote and agree with it.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Let that be a lesson to you. Never work hard and don't form emotional attachments. And also don't be a cow.

Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home. We'll change a lot of things.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

Rob: Jenn, you've got no brains where the brains should be!