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• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
  -- Kin Hubbard...
• Possession isn't nine tenths of the law, it IS the law!
  (This is not from ST:DS9 (?), but it does work for the current!...
• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
  Randell Jarrell...
• Not all the conservative are stupid, but all the stupid are conservative. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Accurate reckoning -- the entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets.
  -- Ahmes the Scribe (17th cent. B.C.)...
• Standard British bird, the gannet...it's in all the books!
• No nonsense, please.
• HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
  Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown 'Tis nine-tenths lying....
• The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Nov. 19, 1870...