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"Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but
we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you."
- -- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student
+ -- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a student entering
+ school in the fall after the Kent State shootings
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Bacchus, n.:
A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for
Ludwig van Beethoven being jeered by 50,000 sports fans for
finishing second in the Irish jig competition.
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-"Boy, life takes a long time to live
+Boy, life takes a long time to live.
-- Steven Wright
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Boy, n.:
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For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...
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-For a good time, call (415) 642-9483
-%
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a
cat.
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to stand, and I will drain the world.
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"Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war."
- -- Napolean
+ -- Napoleon
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Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!
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in any motor vehicle.
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"In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable."
- -- Winston Curchill, of Montgomery
+ -- Winston Churchill, of Montgomery
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In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door
neighbor.
-- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
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Magpie, n.:
- A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it
+ A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it
might be taught to talk.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Man, n.:
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks
-e is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His hief
-occupation is extermination of other animals and his own pecies, which,
-however, multiplies with such insistent apidity as to infest the whole
+he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief
+occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which,
+however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole
habitable earth and Canada.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going
down.
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-The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to
+The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to
eat.
-- John McNulty
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love of the Fatherland."
-- Adolf Hitler
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-There is a theory that states: "If anyone finds out what the universe
-is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bazaarly
-inexplicable."
-
-There is another theory that states: "This has already happened ...."
- -- Douglas Adams, "Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy"
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
-inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has
-already happened.
- -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+inexplicable.
+
+There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
+
+ -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a
vacuum."
-- R. A. Lafferty
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"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
- -- Winston Curchill, On formal declarations of war
+ -- Winston Churchill, On formal declarations of war
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When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by
asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't
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