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• He who walks astride the fence has few directions from which to choose.
  -- Tupper's Political Postulate...
• Vet: Your dog's condition has been upgraded from stable to frisky, [SLH walks out with his hind legs in a cast on rollers] and he's free to go.
  His legs should be as good as new in a few months, but in the meantime he'll have to use the wheelabout....
• Political power is as permanent as today's newspaper.
  Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any state was today....
• Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
• The person who quite clearly knows nothing but thinks that he knows absolutely everything has a very distinct orientation toward a political career.
• God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. -- Martin F. Tupper (1810-1889) -- Of Immortality
• logical adj. [from the technical term `logical device', wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary `logical' name] Having the role of.
  If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the `logical' Les Earnest....
• PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which
  in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases....
• Andras's Political Postulate: Foundation of a party signals the dissolution of the movement.