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A State Trooper caught a speeder in Tuochumsiah. However, the State Trooper could not spell Tuochumsiah properly, so he had to let the speeder go.
He followed the man and caught him in Ida!...
A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself
a State which does not include them is destitute of the chief basis of self-government....
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. -- Richard Byrd
A statistician is one who collects an immense amount of data, studies it with extreme care, discusses it with others who know how to interprete these things, and then draws his own confusions.
A STATISTICIAN - One who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.
-- THE ALL-PURPOSE BUSINESSMAN'S VOCABULARY...
A statistician refuses to fly after reading the alarmingly high probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane.
Later he finds that the probability of there being two bombs on any given flig...
A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
-- Addiso...
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
-- Cullen Hightowe...
Astern: Without humor ... e.g., he was astern son-of-a-gun.
As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of...

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