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• We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
  -- Bishop Henry C. Potter (1835-1908) -- Address at the Washington Centennial Service in St....
• Nobility is the one only virtue. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire viii, 20
• I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the grea
  and their mean boast of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate, the scorn of all who know the worth of mind and virtue....
• Zero-One-Infinity Rule prov. "Allow none of foo, one of foo, or any number of foo.
  A rule of thumb for software design, which instructs one to not place random limits on the number of instances of a given entity (such a...
• A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one anothe
  which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature.
  When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• I've been at autopsies with more party atmosphere. -- Edmund : Nob and Nobility
• There's a new outfit in New York City called New York Pride, which is attempting to get New Yorkers to at least pretend that they don't hate everybody.
  This program resulted from a survey in which researchers asked tourists how come they didn't want to come back to New York, and the tourists said it was because there was so much mean-spiritedness....