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One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
One homunculus a day keeps the doctor away.
One horse laugh is worth 10,000 syllogisms. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
One hundred hairy bugs in the code, one hundred hairy bugs.
...Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 hairy bugs. Repeat until BUGS = 0...
One hysterical woman screamed: ``They killed my babies!
They killed my babies!'' -- (UPI) Enraged pet owners curse cemetery owners, 7/9/91...
One impluse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
-- William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned...
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Gargantua and Pantagruel, To the Reade...
One incompetent manager can negate the work of dozens of excellent engineers.
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie withi...
One is enriched through unfortunate events. No blame, if you are sincere And walk in the middle, And report with a seal to the prince.

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