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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom forth into hysteria
• Birthday parties always end in tears. Enough is never enough.
  The sun always rises in the baby's bedroom window....
• Burns: Tell me, Simpson. If an opportunity arose for taking a small shortcut, you wouldn't be adverse to taking it, would you?
  Homer: Uhh, not as such. Burns: Neither would I. I've always felt that there's far too much hysteria these days about so-called cheating....
• The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere.
  .. Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised by the majority they were at the time....
• Burns: [voice only] Yes, we've isolated the problem.
  Wouldn't you know, false alarm. Marge: Phew!...
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• Skinner: [over PA] Attention, students. It's time once again to choose a gym class for the coming term so let's all prove how adult we can be by filing to the gym in a calm and orderly manner.
  ..even though it's first come, first serve, and the most popular sports fill up fast....
• virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
  via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....