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• It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
  -- Frederick William Robertso...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• They've got a new birth-control pill for men now. I think that's fair.
  It makes a lot more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest....
• Lisa: Bart, having never received any words of encouragement myself, I'm not sure how they're supposed to sound.
  Here goes. I believe in you. Bart: Thanks, man....
• I'll tell you what made this town great! Good old-fashioned gumption.
  there's nothing here a little elbow-grease won't fix....
• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...
• Free speech is far more valuable than cheap talk.
• whalesong n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional V-series modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....
• whalesong: n. The peculiar clicking and whooshing sounds made by a PEP modem such as the Telebit Trailblazer as it tries to synchronize with another PEP modem for their special high-speed mode.
  This sound isn't anything like the normal two-tone handshake between conventional modems and is instantly recognizable to anyone who has heard it more than once....