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• I would rather see starlight than streetlights.
• I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
• I rather lose my CARRIER than my mind!
• Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.
• I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
• I would rather make my name than inherit it. THACKERAY
• BAD /B-A-D/ adj. [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess.
  See working as designed....
• BAD: /B-A-D/ [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] adj.
  Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess....
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941...