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• America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
  -- Charlie King...
• The cream rises to the top. So does the scum. -- Wellington's Law of Command
• Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• You never know where bottom is until you plumb for it. -- Frederick Laing
• The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompso
• E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
  -- L. Neil Smith...
• If you want to get high on pot, stand on a toilet.
• There are those that are born to be on top and those that are born to be on bottom.
  Like officers and soldiers. -- Sergeant Traub...