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• Accidents cause History. If Sigismund Unbuckle had taken a walk in 1426 and met Wat Tyle
  he Peasant's Revolt would never have happened and the motor car would not have been invented until 2026, which would have meant that all the oil could have been used for lamps, thus saving the electric light bulb and the whale, and nobody would have caught Moby Dick or Billy Budd....
• Whatever happens in government could have happened differently and it usually would have been better if it had.
  -- Prof. Charles Frankel...
• If the ancient Greeks had invented UNIX, Murphy's Law would have been known as Aristotle's Law.
  Had they invented MS-Windows, Murphy's Law would have been known as the Law of Socrates....
• The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.
• If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way.
• If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin.