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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
-- Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3...
What is all white, has fifty legs, 34 teeth and an IQ of 23? A Ku Klux Klan Chapte
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
What is a magician but a practising theorist? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
-- New Testament -- Matthew xvi, 26...
What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
-- Willi...
What is a Meeting? It is a place where good ideas go to die.
What IS a `moderate Iranian', anyway? Someone who takes hostages but doesn't eat them?
-- Mark Russell...
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. -- Simone de Beauvoir, "La Femme rompue", 1967
What is an unborn baby? Daddies' Little Squirt.

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