---Colorful placard of a grinning car, advertising
Techron gas at a Chevron gas station pump

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"Spence put a new twist on an old philosophy. To be one with everything, he says, you've gotta have one of everything. That's why he also has the new Ford Ranger. So he can seek wisdom on a mountain top. Take off in pursuit of enlightenment. And connect with Mother Earth. By looking no further than into the planet's coolest 4-door compact pickup. He says it gives him easy access to inner peace. Which makes him one happy soul."

---Copy to Ford advertisement (seen above)
on back of May, 1999 issue of Bicycling magazine

"I used to think that life was unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse, if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them. So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

---Comment by Marcus to Franklin
in "Babylon 5" episode "A Late Delivery from Avalon"

"The past has a way of returning to haunt you.
It doesn't go and lie down quietly."

---Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaking to Bill Moyers
on the program "Facing the Truth," about the work of
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee

The Five Precepts (Pancasila): No. 1:
'Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.'
I undertake the training rule to abstain from killing living beings...

POP-UP AD: "Is there a serial killer in your town? Click Here."

---A visit in April, 1999 to a Therevadan Buddhist web site's page on Buddhism's Five Precepts threw up a Geo-Cities pop-up ad with the above text. Clicking the ad took you to the APB Serial Killer Atlas web site, where it is possible to enter your home town and see if any known or suspected serial murders have occurred near you.

WOMAN IN BAR: You're telling me you spent $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar?
MAN IN BAR: "Yeah, but I figured what the heck---you only live once."

---From a cartoon by Vic Lee called "I Need Help"

"Promises are shit
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
rearrange and see it through
Stupid fucking words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate."

---Excerpt from the song "Promises"
by independent rockers Fugazi

 

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