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* Add a quote about the differences between human and machine
understanding from Ellen Ullman. * Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script.
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This fortune brought to you by:
$FreeBSD$
-
%
-- Gifts for Children --
@@ -755,6 +754,18 @@ And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.
-- Shel Silverstein
%
+ Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small
+misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of
+the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to
+see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or
+background. It can be programmed to behave as if it were working with
+uncertainty, but -- underneath, at the code, at the circuits -- it
+cannot simultaneously do something and withhold for later something that
+remains unknown. In the painstaking working out of the specification,
+line by code line, the programmer confronts an awful, inevitable truth:
+The ways of human and machine understanding are disjunct.
+ -- Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine"
+%
"I cannot read the fiery letters," said Frito Bugger in a
quavering voice.
"No," said GoodGulf, "but I can. The letters are Elvish, of
@@ -11853,6 +11864,233 @@ RULES OF EATING -- THE BRONX DIETER'S CREED
(11) Avoid blue food.
-- Richard Smit, "The Bronx Diet"
%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(1) The greatest threat to the human spirit is liberalism.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(10) Liberalism poisons the soul.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(11) Neither the United States, nor anyone else, "imposes" freedom on
+ the people of other nations. Freedom is not an imposition.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(12) Freedom is God-given.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(13) To dictatorships, peace means the absence of opposition.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(14) To free people, peace means the absence of threat.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(15) The Peace Movement in the United States was, whether by accident or
+ design, pro-communist.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(16) The collective knowledge and wisdom of seasoned citizens is the
+ most valuable, yet untapped, resource our young people have.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(17) The greatest football team in the history of civillization was the
+ Pittsburgh Steelers of 1975 through 1980.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(18) There is no such thing as "war atrocities." War is an atrocity.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(19) Regardless of the pain in our memories, nostalgia only reminds is
+ of the good times in our past.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(2) The single greatest threat to the free people of the world is posed
+ by the heinous idea of centralized government control.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(20) There is a God.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(21) Abortion is wrong.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(22) Morality is not defined by individual choice.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(23) Evolution cannot explain creation.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(24) Feminism was established so that unattractive women could have
+ easier access to the mainstream of society.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(25) Love is the only human emotion which cannot be controlled. You
+ either do or you don't. You can't fake it. (Except women, and
+ thank God they can.)
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(26) The only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet
+ leaders is that he is alive.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(27) Soviet leaders were actually left-wing dictators.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(28) Abraham Lincoln saved this nation.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(29) The Los Angeles Raiders will never be the team they were when they
+ called Oakland home.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(3) Peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(30) The United States will again go to war.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(31) To more and more American intellectuals, a victorious United States
+ is a sinful United States.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(32) The fact that American intellectuals rue a victorious United States
+ is frightening and ominous.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(33) There will always be poor people.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(34) The fact that there will always be poor people is not the fault of
+ the rich.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(35) Rather than feel guilty as some do, you should thank God for making
+ you an American.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(4) Peace does not mean the absence of war.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(5) War is not obsolete.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(6) Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(7) There is only one way to eliminate nuclear weapons. Use them.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(8) Peace cannot be acheived merely by developing an "understanding"
+ among peoples.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
+Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life:
+
+(9) Americans opposing America is not always sacred nor courageous ...
+ it is sometimes dangerous.
+
+ -- "The Limbaugh Letter," Copyright 1992, EFM Publishing, Inc.
+%
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