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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint....
An eighty-year-old woman is rocking away the afternoon on her porch when she sees an old, tarnished lamp sitting near the steps.
She picks it up, rubs it gently, and lo and behold a genie appears! T...
An elderly man stands in line for hours at a Warsaw meat store (meat is severely rationed).
An Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are captured by cannibals.
The leader of the tribe comes up to them and says, "Even though you are about to killed, your deaths will not be in vain....
An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enl...
And St.
And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?
asked the father of his little son. "Diet....
Anything else, sir?" asked the attentive bellhop, trying his best to make the lady and gentleman comfortable in their penthouse suite in the posh hotel.
"No. No, thank you," replied the gentleman. ...
Anything else you wish to draw to my attention, Mr.
Holmes ?" "The curious incident of the stable dog in the nightime....
Approaching the gates of the monastery, Hakuin found Ken the Zen preaching to a group of disciples.
"Words......

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