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• understand, v: To reach a point, in your investigation of some subject, at which you cease to examine what is really present, and operate on the basis of your own internal model instead.
• Kill files are an expression of resentment by the unmemorable or untalented against the memorable and talented.
  Your appearance in kill files merely marks the fact that you have more than once tried to make people think, when they really would rather not....
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
  What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between....
• Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad
  we are bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilized standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of political conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime....
• We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. -- John Dewey
• As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.
  [In fact, this was the big breakthrough for the Wright Brothers....
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twai