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We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. -- S.I. Hayakawa
We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible.
We've done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do something with nothing....
We thrive on euphemism. We call multi-megaton bombs "Peace-keepers", closet size apartments "efficient" and incomprehensible artworks "innovative".
In fact, "euphemism" has become a euphemism for "b...
We thrive on euphemism. We call multi-megaton bombs "Peace-keepers", closet size apartments "efficient" and incomprehensible artworks "innovative".
In fact, "euphemism" has become a euphemism for "b...
We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators.
We tried to close Ohio's borders and ran into a Constitutional problem.
[We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things. -- R.W. Hamming
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra...

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