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• Lisa: [sobs] Mom, this is really scary. I'm going to get my first F ever.
  Marge: Cheer up! So you're not good at sports: it's a very small part of life....
• Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a package you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1773]...
• Mark Twain to young writers: "Whatever you like best, strike it out." -- Thomas Boswell
• Miniaturists do it with as little as possible.
• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
  Randell Jarrell...
• I think there's a world market for about five computers.
  -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943...
• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• Bookworms only read about it.
• I can't think about that. It doesn't go with HEDGES in the shape of LITTLE LULU -- or ROBOTS making BRICKS.
  .. -- Zippy the Pinhead...