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• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• The human race, to which so many of my readers belong
  has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up....
• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children.
  All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function....
• most of us learned about love the hard way. Even warnings are probably usele
  for somehow, despite the severest warnings of parents and friends, hundreds, thousands of women have forgotten themselves at the last minute and succumbed to the lies, promises, flatteries, or mere attentions of lusting, lovely men, landing themselves in complicated predicaments from which some of them never recovered during their entire lives....
• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....
• Practicality is now our great idol, which all powers and talents must serve.
  Anything that is not obviously practical has little value in today's world....
• Most men take only 2-3 minutes to relieve themselves. Women's Restrooms always have long lines.
• It BASICally Sucks Older versions of MS-DOS came with bundled programming languages including GW-BASIC and QBasic.
  Windows XP continues the Microsoft tradition of ruining budding programmers with horrible programming tools by including XPBasic, an interpreted language in which all of the customary BASIC keywords have been replaced with advertising slogans....
• Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- lxxv, Stanza 4...