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As a rule I only study things that suggest music to me.
.. Recently the character of each planet suggested lots to me. -- Gustav Hol...
As a rule software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
-- Dave Parnas, Communications of the ACM (33, 6 June 1990 p.636)...
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-- Lew Wallace...
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
-- Bill Moyers, interviews on "Fresh Air", 1991...
As Athenodorus was taking his leave of Caesar, "Remember," said he, "Caesar, whenever you are angry, to say or do nothing before you have repeated the four-and-twenty letters to yourself.
-- Plutarc...
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
-- Peter McArthu...
As a Vulcan you will study it [Romulan society]. As a human, you would find ways to appreciate it.
-- Romulan Commander, "The Enterprise Incident," stardate 5027.3....
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
-- Rita Mae Brown -- Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual...
asbestos: adj. Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from {flame}
also in other highly {flame}-suggestive usages....
asbestos cork award: n.

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