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Whenever Possible, Put People On Hold.
Whenever possible, steal code. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back.
NOW who's asking the questions? -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey...
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors it is lost. -- Nikolai Leni
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
-- Mark Twain (1835-191...
Whenever the maths turns out to be impossible, you have to invent new physics.
Whenever, therefore, the profession of arms becomes a distinct order in the state.
...the end of the social compact is defeated......
Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. -- Heinrich Heine
Whenever they put on the straight jacket, my nose itches.

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