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• The book, "The Satanic Verses"] is obviously not only offensive but, I would think most of us would say, in bad taste.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle commenting on the book which caused Salman Rushdie to be placed under a death sentence....
• Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him
  and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me....
• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy
  But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. -- William Blake...
• He laughs best who laughs least. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A bank robber hits the biggest bank in LA. He's planned this heist for years and everything goes like clockwork
  but as he's running out of the bank he notices one security camera aimed right at him....
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  -- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adam...
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  --Henry Adam, The Education of Henry Adam...