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• Each time that Americans hold another election, about the only thing they learn is that they did not learn much from the last election.
• This last Presidential election was something like the sex life of many people.
  They had to settle for what they could get....
• Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.
  We have the best politicians that money can buy. -- Edward Abbey...
• First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come
  but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed. -- Bunya...
• We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity.
  Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals....
• We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is someone will win.
  -- Barry Crimmi...
• It's been called to our attention that if Count Dracula had been burned at the stake, the result would have been Transylvanian ghoul ash.
• Spock: "For some time now, I've been aware of a growing movement here of people who seek to learn the ideals of the Vulcan philosophy.
  They've been declared enemies of the state, but there are a few in the Romulan hierarchy like Pardek, who are sympathetic....
• Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
  -- Whitney M. Young, Jr....