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• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets.
  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit -- around the sun....
• One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
  -- Clifton Fadima...
• We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
  -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play...
• For 300 years we have denied the carnal side of our nature.
  How can we learn to put that aside? Eh, well, you....
• I 'm weary of conjectures,--this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed
  my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me...
• Springfield will have its first annual "Do What You Feel" Festival this Saturday, whenever you feel like showing up!
  It'll be a welcome change from our annual, "Do As We Say" Festival started by German settlers in 1946....
• When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like tha
  we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all our skin layers....