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• There is always something new out of Africa. -- Gaius Plinius Secundu
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape
  or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water....
• For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country.
  And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered
  never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb....