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• Kirk: "Reverse thrusters, full astern, one-half impulse power!
  Back off, back off!" -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether 't was rightfully said, Live Concealed...
• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
  My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy....
• T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E
• Cynicism is humor in ill-health. -- H. G. Well
• (A)bort, (R)etry, (G)et a gun and kill it.
• A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
• For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 6...
• No man with any sense of humor, ever founded a religion. -- Robert G. Ingersoll