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• All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. -- Sir Max Beerbohm
• His back against a rock he bore. And firmly placed his foot before
  Come one, come all! This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." -- Sco...
• I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken -- The choosing was not.
  -- Stephen Sondheim, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE...
• Friendship is no plant of hasty growth; Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.
  -- Joanna Baillie...
• We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.
  -- Reverend William Sewell...
• Quote #470 "I'd rather have :rofix than const." -- Dennis Ritchie [from the sig of Tom Christiansen.
  No idea what it means. base annotation? EIR?]...
• Slander meets no regard from noble minds; only the base believe what the base only utter.
  -- Belle...
• A [golf] ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree.
  Hitting a tree is simply bad luck and has no place in a scientific game....