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  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Cicero...
• I've got to hand it to the Venetians, though. I can't tell you how impressed I was with that city.
  Nowhere else in the world can you find a flood area bringing in so much tourist gold....
• If it's Tourist Season, why can't we shoot 'em ???
• Selma: [showing slides] And this is Patty trying to plug her leg razor into one of those ungodly Czechoslovakian outlets.
  [next slide, of a hairy-legged Patty] As you can see, we never did get the hang of it....
• We have glimpsed the dawn even in our city's darkest hour.
  -- Rev. Don Alexander at ceremony for families of Oklahoma City bombing...
• One of the more fragile things in life is the unbreakable guarantee.
• How many feminists -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  Two. One to wait for a federal agency to send someone to screw it in....
• When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve
  `My dear, we live in an age of transition.' -- Dean William R. Inge...
• Helga, how many Germans does it take to change a light bulb ?
  Ah, is this the one about the highly-trained quality control checkers at the Lowenbrau brewery here in the beautiful city of Munich where they have to carefully check that each and every stage of the bier brewing process adheres to the Reinheitsgebot ancient brewing laws laid down in 1516 which set minimum standards for the purity of the ingredients otherwise they'd be subject to extremely enormous fines so quality control is a very important job both in terms of the quality of all the Lowenbrau biers and of course the financial good health of the company from the checking of the malted barley with the hops not forgetting the pure Bavarian spring water by any chance ?...