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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
-- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626...
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
The Generation that'd change the world is still lookin for its car keys!
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) -- Remark to Francoise Gilot, 1946...
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
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The gentleman behing me struck me on the backside. He then went to rest in the bush with just his rear end showing.
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
-- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Spe...
The gentleman is not in your books. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act i, Sc.
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The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
-- Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Speech, 1813...
The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

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