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• In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• In Oregon, the State Legislature has come up with a State Nut.
  This is unlikely to happen in Missouri, since there are too many candidates....
• Andy: Hear ye, hear ye. This session will now come to order.
  With the cooperation of the US Department of State, we have present today one Bart Simpson....
• The State of Delaware has a law against pawning your wooden leg.
• A police state is great, so long as you're the police.
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds.
  -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adam...
• What did the state table say to bitstring? I don't recognize you.