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• One day President Reagan, Chairman Brezhnev, the Pope, and a boy scout were flying together in an airplane.
  Right out in the middle of nowhere the plane developed engine trouble and started to go down....
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  -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book...
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• The mind is like a parachute. It functions only when open.
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• You don't have to be nice to people on the way up if you're not planning on coming back down.
  -- Oliver Warbucks, "Annie...