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• Any race that doesn't use all its potential will always stop short of its possibilities.
  -- Jose Torre...
• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amuseme
  compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling....
• A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object in the whole creation.
  -- Goldsmith...
• Snafu Equations 1) Given any problem containing n equations, there will be n + 1 unknowns.
  2) An object or bit of information most needed, will be least available....
• There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli.
  I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion....
• He that uses many words for the explaining any subject, doth like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
  -- Ray...