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• It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground.
  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
• Dear Bart, I am using the stationery Mom and Dad gave me &l
  for my birthday> to inform you that we are now brother and sister in name only....
• Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now.
  Because of this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid....
• Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go a west as distant and fair.
  ..We dream all night of those mountain-ridges on the horizon....
• Every parting gives a foretaste of death;. . . -- Schopenhauer, _Parerga and Paralipomena_
• Jasper: What's eatin' you, Abe? For three weeks all you've been talking about is meeting Matlock.
  Now you've met him, swiped his pills -- [reads label] "Take one every hour to prevent spastic heart convulsions" -- [An ambulance drives by with its siren blaring...
• I liked morphine from the start. It made me graciously tolerant of every form of human imbecility, including my own.
  -- Alexander King...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• Lisa: Look, we got a package from the Mr. Sparkle company in Japan.
  Homer: Ooh! [opens package, but only Styrofoam packing peanuts spill out....