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• The German tongue. Fleshy, warped, spit-sprayed, purplish and cruel.
  -- Jack Gladney, from White Noise...
• The following appeared in a memo from the new vice president of Sartorian, a company that manufactures men's clothing.
  "Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our deluxe alpaca overcoats....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
  -- Logan P. Smith...
• Picard: "Earth was once a violent planet too. At times, the chaos threatened the very fabric of life, but like you, we evolved.
  We found other ways to handle our conflict. But I think no one can deny that the seed....
• What do you mean WE, white man?
• Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
  Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end....