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One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
-- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the truth.
A gallows was erected in front of the city gates....
One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled.
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. -- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
One learns to itch where one can scratch. -- Ernest Bramah
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone.
These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begi...
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net!
How will it live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net, I'll tell you....
One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

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