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  Since 1985 both cities have had stringent building codes requiring all new buildings to have specific features designed to prevent damage in an earthquake....
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  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children?
  Well, she and I were. -- Mort Sahl...
• It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe.
  ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe....
• double bucky adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys.
  The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F....
• Have but one God: thy knees were sore If bent in prayer to three or four.
  Adore no images save those The coinage of thy country shows....
• The morally unthinkable killing of children has not only become routine, but it is increasing in the world's leading democracy.
  What will it take for parents and religious, community and political leaders to stand up and say enough?...
• My ritual differs slightly. What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers....
• What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of while he showers....