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• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• What they said: What they meant: "I recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever.
  (Yes, that about sums it up.) "The amount of mathematics she knows will surprise you....
• 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....
• A lot of people will urge you to put some money in a bank, and in fact--within reason--this is very good advice.
  But don't go overboard. Remember, what you are doing is giving your money to someone else to hold on to, and I think that it is worth keeping in mind that the businessmen who run banks are so worried about holding on to things that they put little chains on all their pens....
• A retired dentist who loves to fish. "Open wide," he mutters to the unseen fish as he waits for a tug on the line.
  Now bite down. This may sting just a little bit....
• A diplomat is a person who: + -always knows what to talk about, but doesn't always talk about what he knows.
  + -always tries to settle problems created by other diplomats....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• 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....
• One day, when I came home from work, I accidently put my car key in the door of my apartment building.
  .. I turned it... and the whole building started up....