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• Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived by a great river.
  One day, after a hard day's fishing, he hooked what seemed to him to be the biggest, strongest fish he had ever caught....
• We are faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
• The world's most avid baseball fan (an Aggie) had arrived at the stadium for the first game of the World Series only to realize he had left his ticket at home.
  Not wanting to miss any of the first inning, he went to the ticket booth and got in a long line for another seat....
• O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded
  what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised....
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races.
  The races are better. -- Mark Helprin -- Winter's Tale...
• Pedro Guerrero was playing third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984 when he made the comment that earns him a place in my Hall of Fame.
  Second baseman Steve Sax was having trouble making his throws....
• LaForge: "Can I ask you a question? What in the world made you think of using the transporter pattern buffer to survive?
  Scott: "Well, we didn't have enough supplies to wait for the rescue, so we had to think of something....
• We had a story to go with this painting, but it was far too intense.
  So we just threw something together with vampires. Enjoy! -- Bart, "Treehouse of Horror IV...