The Cynic's Sanctuary

"True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone."

-- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates: Bitterly Amusing Thoughts on Aging, Insanity, Death, Extinction & Other Inconveniences

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Better to be merry some of the time, and miserable some of the time, than to be merely well-adjusted all of the time." -- Rick Bayan

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"A good education spoils us for life in the business world. After studying history or philosophy with any conviction, it is impossible to become a dedicated sales representative." - Rick Bayan

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"You can pay workers to work, but you can't pay them to love it." -- Rick Bayan

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"Ideologies are the second-hand clothes of the intellectual world." -- Rick Bayan

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"Driving is a lot like life: we simply want to enjoy the journey from Point A to Point B, but all the forces of man and nature conspire to frazzle us along the way." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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"When terrorism rules, the subtle distinctions between individuals become as irrelevant as the color of their underwear." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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"A cat’s self-regard seems to be natural and unshakable despite his total ignorance of Western civilization." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates: Bitterly Amusing Thoughts on Aging, Insanity, Death, Extinction & Other Inconveniences

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"We're still just the world's premium brand of ape." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"Nothing turns a pacifist into a warrior like the invasion of his home turf." -- Rick Bayan, "A Bug's Death," from Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"Our minds are the last refuge of privacy, at least until the day they’re implanted with electronic chips." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability." -- Rick Bayan

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"We're all sacks of flesh, and we're all going to die!" -- Rick Bayan, from "Flesh and Mortality," Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"No matter what we're doing at the moment, the majority of us would rather be doing something else." -- Rick Bayan

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"True individualists are always at odds with the universe." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"Perhaps the most irrational belief of all is expecting the world to be rational." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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"Humans are the idiot-savants of the animal kingdom." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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"If you're working hard enough to make a fortune these days, chances are that the concept of leisure will be as alien to you as a lava lamp was to John Quincy Adams." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

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"To be intellectually gifted is to be as disadvantaged as a moron, with one minor difference: morons are happier." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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What can you say about a deity who gladly dispenses with the lives of the meek to nourish a strong and devious elite? -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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"If all goes according to plans, the Boomers will become the first generation in history to advance directly from adolescence to senility without the usual interval of maturity." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

Cynical Quote of the Week

"No matter what we’re doing at the moment, the majority of us would rather be doing something else." -- Rick Bayan

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

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"The typical workplace is a ghetto of militant sanity." -- Rick Bayan

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"The gods have always shown a distressing tendency to favor their most obnoxious creatures." -- Rick Bayan

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All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

　

Cynical Quote of the Week

Fools rush in where fools have been before. -- Anonymous

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We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. -- Max Stirner