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  -- Eric Hoffe...
• Homer: You're home safe. Done my duty. See you the next time we need your signature.
  Abe: Aw, you never want to spend any time with me....
• Here's a piece of late news. Mr. Arthur Perkiss, the man who this week won five hundred thousand pounds on the pools, has announced that he will never work another day in his life.
  So he's staying on with British Rail. -- Ronnie Corbe...
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  The spod has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net....
• Dave Finton gazes into his crystal ball... January 2099
  Rob Malda Finally Gets His Damned Nano-Technology The Linux hacker community finally breathed a collective sigh of relief when it was announced that Rob Malda finally got his damned nanotechnology....
• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
  His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not....
• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance
  or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions....
• If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profi
  is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man....
• All his life he has looked away... to the horizon, to the sky, to the future.
  Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. -- Yoda...