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• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...
• The following appeared in a memo from the new vice president of Sartorian, a company that manufactures men's clothing.
  "Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our deluxe alpaca overcoats....
• I'm from the IRS. The government has spent all your tax money. Could we please have some more?
• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the decei
  Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day...
• The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Armchair Video, a chain of video rental stores.
  "Because of declining profits, we must reduce operating expenses at Armchair Video's ten video rental stores....
• Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Divine Love, Canto iii...
• In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff [head of RCA] made this stateme
  We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them....
• We gave him all the regular ones - the time-honoured lies that have done duty up the river with every boating-man for years past - and added seven entirely original ones that we had invented for ourselve
  including a really quite likely story, founded, to a certain extent, on an all but true episode, which had actually happened in a modified degree some years ago to friends of ours - a story that a mere child could have believed without injuring itself much....
• Barclay: "We could repair all of the reactors, simultaneously, instead of 'one- by-one'.
  Picard: "'Simultaneously'? All eighteen?" Barclay...