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A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education. -- G. B. Shaw...
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble
hen you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant....
A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. -- D. Grie
A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.
-- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature...
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenso
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome.
Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing...
A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks.
-- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981...
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident....
A gleekzorp without a tornpee is like a quop without a fertsneet (sort of).

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