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• Standing at the very center of the plaza is a stone monument to some forgotten hero.
  In one majestically upraised arm he holds a rather nasty looking stone sword....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• A well known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
  He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy....
• ET Man: '70s leading man Troy McClure has finally met the woman of his dreams.
  We may rememb... woman? Huh, okay! We may remember Troy from such films as "The Verdict Was Mail Fraud", and "Leper in the Backfield"....
• Homer: So, do you think I have a case? Hutz: I don't use the word hero very often, but you are the greatest hero in American history.
  Homer: Woo-hoo! -- I'm sorry, did I say `hero'? I meant `zero'. "The New Kid on the Block...
• He died a hero's death, dying so his friends might live.
  .. ...And that his enemies might have something to go with their potatoes....
• Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains.
  His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space...
• Research is the best place to be: you work your buns off, and if it works you're a hero
  if it doesn't, well -- nobody else has done it yet either, so you're still a valiant nerd....
• RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque.
  Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded....