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• If you desire to be accepted into a society and known as a fair sort of person, you must agree to be taught many things you have already long known.
  -- Charles Talleyrand...
• You know that they have accepted each other when she doesn't scream at him for spilling something on the new carpet, and he doesn't get excited at her because of the dent in the new car.
• Lemma: All horses are the same color. Proof (by induction)
  Case n = 1: In a set with only one horse, it is obvious that all horses in that set are the same color....
• Did you hear about the young thing who is fondly known to the men in the office as Secretariat -- not because she's a good secretary but because she's a wonderful mount.
• Communist China is technologically underdeveloped because they have no alphabet and therefore cannot use acronyms to communicate ideas at a faster rate.
  -- Omni...
• The following appeared in a letter from a department chairperson to the president of Pierce University.
  "Some studies conducted by Bronston College, which is also located in a small town, reveal that both male and female professors are happier living in small towns when their spouses are also employed in the same geographic area....
• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people
  for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them...
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• A new study collected data that shows that people who snore are more likely to gain weight than are people who do not snore.
  It is well known that many people who snore also stop breathing frequently during the night for a few seconds, a condition called sleep apnea....