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• DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life.
  The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world....
• The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or no
  he ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there....
• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.
  -- Washington Irving...
• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of the atom
  I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet should fall into a most ingenious treatise on Philosophy....
• Most men fall in love with a pretty face but find themselves bound for life to a hateful stranger, alternating endlessly between workshop and a witch's kitchen.
• War, n.: A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
  Since we are told "In times of peace prepare for war", war is inevitable....
• Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the smaller prime numbers.
  2: The Odd Prime -- It's the only even prime, therefore is odd....