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@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ nice," he replied, but don't you think it would be better if..."
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A novel approach is to remove all power from the system, which
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removes most system overhead so that resources can be fully devoted to
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doing nothing. Benchmarks on this technique are promising; tremendous
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doing nothing. Benchmarks on this technique are promising; tremendous
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amounts of nothing can be produced in this manner. Certain hardware
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limitations can limit the speed of this method, especially in the
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larger systems which require a more involved & less efficient
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@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ speaks in such a low voice I can hardly hear them.
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and waist, that it is almost impossible to reach one's shoelaces. And the
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sizes don't run the way they used to. The 12's and 14's are so much smaller.
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Even people are changing. They are so much younger than they used to
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be when I was their age. On the other hand people my age are so much older
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be when I was their age. On the other hand people my age are so much older
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than I am.
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I ran into an old classmate the other day and she has aged so much
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that she didn't recognize me.
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@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ of her blonde companion.
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"How many people work here?"
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"Oh, about half."
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How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are
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How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are
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3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who
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could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
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-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
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@ -3040,7 +3040,7 @@ it. The answer is obvious. A Japanese tourist took the picture.
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Never ask if your lover has had therapy. Only people who have had
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therapy ask if people have had therapy.
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Don't ask about plaster casts of male sex organs marked JIMI, JIM, etc.
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Assume that she bought them at a flea market.
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Assume that she bought them at a flea market.
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-- James Peterson and Kate Nolan
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NEW YORK-- Kraft Foods, Inc. announced today that its board of
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@ -5465,7 +5465,7 @@ astray by hunting and pecking.
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"... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of
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your own."
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-- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter
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-- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter
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Preposterous Words
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... Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
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@ -6064,9 +6064,9 @@ increase to more than $100,000,000 -- by which time it will be worth nothing.
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(6) Fungus trellis
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(7) False eyelashes
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(8) Prosthetic dog claws
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(99) Window garden harrow (pulled behind Tonka tractors)
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(100) Killer velcro
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(101) Currency
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@ -6242,7 +6242,7 @@ You patch a bug, and dump it again:
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You patch a bug, and dump it again:
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101 blocks of crud on the disk!
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A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
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A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
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-- Ben Franklin
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A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice
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@ -7095,7 +7095,7 @@ A good supervisor can step on your toes without messing up your shine.
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A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever
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gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes,
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then asks the backhoe operator for directions.
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-- Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>
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-- Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>
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A GOOD WAY TO THREATEN somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you
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call the guy and hold the burning fuse to the phone. "Hear that?" you say.
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@ -7249,7 +7249,7 @@ M is for Maud who was swept out to sea, N is for Nevil who died of enui.
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O is for Olive, run through with an awl, P is for Prue, trampled flat in a brawl
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Q is for Quinton who sank in a mire, R is for Rhoda, consumed by a fire.
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S is for Susan who parished of fits, T is for Titas who flew into bits.
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U is for Una who slipped down a drain, V is for Victor, squashed under a train.
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U is for Una who slipped down a drain, V is for Victor, squashed under a train.
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W is for Winie, embedded in ice, X is for Xercies, devoured by mice.
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Y is for Yoric whose head was bashed in, Z is for Zilla who drank too much gin.
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-- Edward Gorey "The Gastly Crumb Tines"
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@ -9056,7 +9056,7 @@ the whale, and nobody would have caught Moby Dick or Billy Budd.
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According to a recent and unscientific national survey, smiling is something
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everyone should do at least 6 times a day. In an effort to increase the
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national average (the US ranks third among the world's superpowers in
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national average (the US ranks third among the world's superpowers in
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smiling), Xerox has instructed all personnel to be happy, effervescent, and
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most importantly, to smile. Xerox employees agree, and even feel strongly
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that they can not only meet but surpass the national average... except for
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@ -9351,7 +9351,7 @@ that it sinks like a stone.
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After his legs had been broken in an accident, Mr. Miller sued for damages,
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claiming that he was crippled and would have to spend the rest of his life
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in a wheelchair. Although the insurance-company doctor testified that his
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bones had healed properly and that he was fully capable of walking, the
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bones had healed properly and that he was fully capable of walking, the
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judge decided for the plaintiff and awarded him $500,000.
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When he was wheeled into the insurance office to collect his check,
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Miller was confronted by several executives. "You're not getting away with
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@ -9874,7 +9874,7 @@ From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
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A light from the shadows shall spring;
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Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
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The crownless again shall be king.
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-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can,
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too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you
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@ -11082,7 +11082,7 @@ first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
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explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
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intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of
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thought on every occasion."
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-- Chuck Jones (Warner Bros. animation director.)
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-- Chuck Jones (Warner Bros. animation director.)
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Anyone stupid enough to be caught by the police is probably guilty.
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@ -11965,7 +11965,7 @@ I'm lucky today, I've overcome my UNIX problem. It wasn't easy. If
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you're smart, just don't start. Remember, if any weirdo offers you
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some UNIX,
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Just Say No!
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Just Say No!
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At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on
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the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is
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@ -12147,7 +12147,7 @@ Business before pleasure."
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Back in the early 60's, touch tone phones only had 10 buttons. Some
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military versions had 16, while the 12 button jobs were used only by people
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who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice answerback) systems -- mainly banks.
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Since in those days, only Western Electric made "data sets" (modems) the
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Since in those days, only Western Electric made "data sets" (modems) the
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problems of terminology were all Bell System. We used to struggle with
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written descriptions of dial pads that were unfamiliar to most people
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(most phones were rotary then.) Partly in jest, some AT&T engineering
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@ -12486,7 +12486,7 @@ Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman with nothing to wear.
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Behold the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" -- which
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is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but
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is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but
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the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that
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basket!"
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-- Mark Twain
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@ -19977,8 +19977,8 @@ schizophrenia in mass genocide.
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From Italian tourist guide:
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"Non stop trains to Roma Termini Station leave from 7.38
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a.m. to 10.08 p.m., hourly."
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"Non stop trains to Roma Termini Station leave from 7.38
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a.m. to 10.08 p.m., hourly."
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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.
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@ -20385,7 +20385,7 @@ Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner.
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find
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that everything he encounters needs pounding.
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Give a woman an inch and she'll park a car in it.
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Give a woman an inch and she'll park a car in it.
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Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down
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that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File".
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Hacker's Guide To Cooking:
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2 pkg. cream cheese (the mushy white stuff in silver wrappings that doesn't
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really come from Philadelphia after all; anyway, about 16 oz.)
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1 tsp. vanilla extract (which is more alcohol than vanilla and pretty
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really come from Philadelphia after all; anyway, about 16 oz.)
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1 tsp. vanilla extract (which is more alcohol than vanilla and pretty
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strong so this part you *GOTTA* measure)
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1/4 cup sugar (but honey works fine too)
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8 oz. Cool Whip (the fluffy stuff devoid of nutritional value that you
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beater if you have a cat(1) that can climb wall(1s) to lick it off
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the ceiling(3m).
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"Pour into a graham cracker crust..." Aha, the BUGS section at last. You
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just happened to have a GCC sitting around under /etc/food, right?
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just happened to have a GCC sitting around under /etc/food, right?
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If not, don't panic(8), merely crumble a rand(3m) handful of innocent
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GCs into a suitable tempfile and mix in some melted butter.
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"...and refrigerate for an hour." Leave the recipe's stdout in a fridge
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"...and refrigerate for an hour." Leave the recipe's stdout in a fridge
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for 3.6E6 milliseconds while you work on cleaning up stderr, and
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by time out your cheesecake will be ready for stdin.
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Hydrogen: A colorless, odorless, lighter than air gas which, given
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time, turns into people.
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-- Harlow Shapley
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-- Harlow Shapley
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I:
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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin
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@ -23591,7 +23591,7 @@ I should have to believe in it in this one.
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-- Strange de Jim
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I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! Can't prove anything!
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-- Bart Simpson
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-- Bart Simpson
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I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired.
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But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired.
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I predict that today will be remembered until tomorrow!
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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-- Alexandre Dumas the Younger
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I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
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@ -24957,7 +24957,7 @@ I respect the institution of marriage. I have always thought that every
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woman should marry -- and no man.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair"
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I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New
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I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New
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England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be
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raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in
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New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for
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-- Groucho Marx
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It isn't whether you win or lose, it's how much money you end up with.
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-- Jack T. Shakespeare
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-- Jack T. Shakespeare
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It just doesn't seem right to go over the river and through the woods
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to Grandmother's condo.
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-- Professor, EECS, George Washington University
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I'm looking forward to working with you on this next year.
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-- Professor, Harvard, on a senior thesis.
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-- Professor, Harvard, on a senior thesis.
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Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
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-- Rob Pike
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We see him and he's all washed up --
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Moving on into the body of a beetle
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Getting ready for a long long crawl
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He ain't nothing -- he ain't nothing at all...
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He ain't nothing -- he ain't nothing at all...
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Death and Money make their point once more
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In the shape of Philosophical assassins
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Orcs really aren't so bad (if you use lots of catsup).
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward
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mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.
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mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.
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-- Thomas Mann
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Oregano, n.:
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a
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continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national
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emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we
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did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded.
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did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded.
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Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never
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to have been quite real.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
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Vast plains covered by treeless forests.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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-- Stephen Coonts, "The Minotaur"
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-- Stephen Coonts, "The Minotaur"
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
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-- John Florio
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-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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Schmidt's Observation:
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All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap
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All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap
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than a thin person.
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Schnuffel, n.:
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mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by
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luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged
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rocks. They all got out of the car:
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The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it."
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The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it
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The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it."
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The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it
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into town and have a specialist look at it."
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The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back
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The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back
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in and see if it does it again."
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Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there.
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Shirley MacLaine died today in a freak psychic collision today. Two freaks
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in a van [Oh no!! It's the Copyright Police!!] Her aura-charred body was
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in a van [Oh no!! It's the Copyright Police!!] Her aura-charred body was
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laid to rest after a eulogy by Jackie Collins, fellow member of SAFE [Society
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of Asinine Flake Entertainers]. Excerpted from some of his more quotable
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comments:
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It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
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-- Willie Sutton
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The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
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"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?" he asked.
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The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
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"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?" he asked.
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"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely,
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"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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-- Lewis Carroll
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There was an old Indian belief that by making love on the hide of
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their favorite animal, one could guarantee the health and prosperity
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of the offspring conceived thereupon. And so it goes that one Indian
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couple made love on a buffalo hide. Nine months later, they were
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couple made love on a buffalo hide. Nine months later, they were
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blessed with a healthy baby son. Yet another couple huddled together
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on the hide of a deer and they too were blessed with a very healthy
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baby son. But a third couple, whose favorite animal was a hippopotamus,
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You humans are all alike.
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You just know when a relationship is about to end. My girlfriend called me
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at work and asked me how you change a lightbulb in the bathroom. "It's very
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at work and asked me how you change a lightbulb in the bathroom. "It's very
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simple," I said. "You start by filling up the bathtub with water..."
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You just wait, I'll sin till I blow up!
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are
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to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
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servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
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-- Theodore Roosevelt
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-- Theodore Roosevelt
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