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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.
Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views....
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. -- Miguel de Cervante
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
The very staff of my age, my very prop. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act ii, Sc.
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The very technology that makes our living simpler makes society more complex.
The more efficient we get, the more specialized we become and the more dependent....
The VFW represents many who died to give this country a second chance to make it what it is supposed to be -- God's guest house on earth.
-- John Wayne...
The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate.
Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. -- Bill Vaugha...
The victor belongs to the spoils. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage.
-- Picard, "Contagion", stardate 42609.1...

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