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What is status? Status is when the President calls you for your opinion.
Uh, no... Status is when the President calls you in to discuss a problem with him....
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer?
It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak....
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertold Brech
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What is this line of duty, and suffering? You are not supposed to suffer if you are an assassin.
The other person is supposed to suffer....
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.
We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature....
What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definitio
it is what is believed to be the truth. A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and may, therefore, be justified....
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928...
What is wanted is not the will-to-believe, but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell...
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

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