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• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar.
  We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them....
• Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends. -- Coco Chanel
• Necessity has no law.
• Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine
• Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced .
  .. "the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunctio...
• Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
  Cesare Pavese...
• ICBM address: n. (Also `missile address') The form used to register a site with the USENET mapping project includes a blank for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy.
  This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of USENET links on a plotte...
• AFK [MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify others that you will be momentarily unavailable online.
  eg. "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet, I need to go AFK to make a phone call"....
• Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy.
  However, they claim no one has shown the slightest bit of interest in it. -- George Carli...