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• Paradise was the place where everything was known but where nothing was explained.
  The universe before sin - before commentary... -- E.M. Ciora...
• In most societies, competition generally has more of a negative than a positive effect.
• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
  In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic....
• For the egoist has so far the advantage over every other species of devotee, that his idol is ever present.
  -- Catherine Gore...
• No true art without a strong dose of banality. The constant employment of the unaccustomed readily wearies us, nothing being more unendurable than the uniformity of the exceptional.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic.
  This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_....
• Major policy decisions should always be left to politicians and other government experts, who are more informed and thus have better judgment and perspective than do members of the general public.
• A victim of a prank, Geordi puts a banana over his eyes.
• The more RAM you have, the better -- M. Chambe