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  Occasionally makes it hard to get work done. (George Bush, and Q)...
• And to think," murmured the rosy-glow-feeling adolescent to the girl with whom he had just scored, "that a few short years ago I thought happiness was a warm puppy".
• It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea.
  No sound was heard of clashing wars, Peace brooded o'er the hushed domai...
• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• asbestos cork award n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
  had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....
• asbestos cork award: n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a {flamer} so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
  had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....
• The Goddess loves you...But wait until She's had her coffee.
• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...