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• I'm as innocent as a new-laid egg.
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  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
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  -- Robert C. Weave...
• Asking a Republican Senate and Democratic House to make a law is like trying to fry a single egg in two pans.
  -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
• Lance Hillhouse: Professional Instigations for a Nominal Fee.
• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
  -- George Wallace...