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• There is one god, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in thought like unto mortals.
  -- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 23...
• Men create the gods in their own image. -- Xenophane
• Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
  -- W. C. Field...
• Questioning an undertaker: Can a person furnish his own casket?
  Would a large radio cabinet be acceptable for burial if hollowed out and made into a child's casket?...
• COME FROM n. A semi-mythical language construct dual to the `go to'
  COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to the statement following the COME FROM....
• Nothing is impossible to industry. -- Periander (fl. c. B.C. 570)
• I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. -- W. C. Field
• Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii...
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....