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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
  -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)...
• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• And God saw everything he had made, and he saw that it was very good
  and God said, It JUST goes to show Me what the private sector can accomplish....
• As you enter the mine a rather burly man approaches you and exclaims, "Great to see someone else stumble into this God (sic) forsaken hole.
  I came here 12 years ago and lost my boat. This mine has the greatest gem hordes ever encountered....
• Riker: "I've been doing a little research. Trying to find out more about William T.
  Riker." Troi: "What have you discovered?" Riker: "He's a musician, for one thing....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.
  My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them....
• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers.
  My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them....
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....