Fortune cookies

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For quite some time I've been collecting interesting, cool, geeky, thought-provoking, weird or merely funny taglines in a big file. A tagline is a witty and usually small note that you add at the end of each mail you send. They are also known as fortune cookies.

This laxe pithe or marrow in man's head shows no more capacity for thought than a Cake of Sewet or a Bowl of Curds.

— Henry More, 1652

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The purpose of scientific research is to gain understanding, an obligation no person can delegate without giving up.

— E. W. Dijkstra

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[T]he lesson [comic books] taught children -- or this child, at any rate -- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

— Salman Rushdie

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HTML has followed nature's example... bright, sometimes flashing, colors are a sign of indigestiblility.

— Rob Hartill

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