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• Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
• A diplomat is a person who: + -always knows what to talk about, but doesn't always talk about what he knows.
  + -always tries to settle problems created by other diplomats....
• If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
  -- Muhammad Ali...
• uninteresting adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• uninteresting: adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
  2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code....
• You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
  -- Ronald Reagan (1981)...
• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead!
  Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae....