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• In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them
  and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent....
• Quite frankly I admit that I am not too talented, rather under-educated
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• To me old age is fifteen years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch
• I am immune to all such things, my friend. As a youth, a certain amount of head-bangin' and metal-bashin' left my synapses so callous, no mind-alterin' substances are in charge.
  -- Blank Reg...
• I am Daimon Goss. And these are my councils Kole and Dr.
  Arridor. We'll need chairs. I'm Captain Picard of the Enterprise I am serving as host for these proceedings....
• Carol: "Actually, he's a lot like you...in many ways.
  Please tell me what you're feeling." Kirk: "There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me....
• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. -- Jackie Maso
• Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
  I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian systems or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were too simple....