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• Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second though
  but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1845)...
• A king of shreds and patches. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4
• COPYING MACHINE: A device that shreds paper, flashes mysteriously coded messages, and makes duplicates for everyone in the office who isn't interested in reading them.
• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time
  which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man....
• The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day
  and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly....
• Victory is a thing of the will.
• It's not a black or a white thing. It's a death thing.
• HATE To dislike something immensely. If you would are interested in hate, and would like to take it up as a hobby, contact the Hate Everything League.
  They hold regular meetings at Hate Hall, where members read odes to Barry Manilow, sing songs about Volvo Drivers, rip Cobol source-code print-outs to shreds, and burn effigies of software company support line operators....
• Mmmmmm-MMMMMM!! A plate of STEAMING PIECES of a PIG mixed with the shreds of SEVERAL CHICKENS!
  !... Oh BOY!! I'm about to swallow a TORN-OFF section of a COW'S LEFT LEG soaked in COTTONSEED OIL and SUGAR!...