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  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before....
• There must be a hundred reasons why I shouldn't blow you away.
  Right now I can't think of one. -- Clint Eastwood, The Rookie...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• You always learn something by reading the classics.
  Particularly The Prince. I go through and look at this from this intellectual point of view....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• If I touch a match to a mixture of chemicals and an explosion occurs, I don't set a second mixture aside to see if it will blow up without the help of the match.
  The effect of the match is obvious. -- Walden Two...
• Mad Programmer Commits Suicide KENNETT, MO -- For two years Doug Carter toiled away in his basement computer lab working on his own 'Dougnix' operating system.
  Apparently he was sick of Windows 95 so he decided to create his own OS, based loosely on Unix....
• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth
  he perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said...
• Just look at that face. The face of a thinker, a warrior, a man for all seasons.
  Yet, Ira Graves was not perfect. Perhaps his greatest flaw was that he was too selfless....