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• The following appeared in an editorial in a business magazine.
  "Although the sales of Whirlwind video games have declined over the past two years, a recent survey of video-game players suggests that this sales trend is about to be reversed....
• Consciousness is that which it is not, and is not that which it is: -- Sartre
• People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
  -- Anne Sulliva...
• miswart /mis-wort/ n. [from wart by analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing.
  For example, in some versions of the EMACS text editor, the `transpose characters' command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, except when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged....
• Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes of Harvard Medical School inhaled ether at a time when it was popularly supposed to produce such mystical or "mind-expanding" experience
  much as LSD is supposed to produce such experiences today....
• Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in which man can indulge.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), "The Bum...
• miswart: /mis-wort/ [from {wart} by analogy with {misbug}] n.
  A {feature} that superficially appears to be a {wart} but has been determined to be the {Right Thing}....
• In many if not most elections, the consequences come to about the same result as two bald men fighting over a comb.
  Whichever one gets elected is going to commission the design of a new comb, and it is going to be expensive....
• Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum.
  We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about. -- Edward Abbey...