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  My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them....
• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
  -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)...
• 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....
• I'd hate to be a new baby being born into this world today.
  There seems to be so much trouble everywhere. If I were a new baby, I don't think I could stand knowing what I was going to have to go through....
• I have been complimented many times and that embarrasses me
  I always feel they have not said enough. MARK TWAIN...
• Milhouse: Bart, look! It's Principal Skinner. And I think he's gone crazy -- he's not wearing a suit or tie or anything!
  Bart: [approaches him] Principal Skinner? Um, I'm real sorry about my dog getting you fired, and biting you, and then getting it on with your leg....
• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.
  I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself....
• For what it's worth, I understand your bitterness. With respect sir, you cannot.
  I am asked to give up the very lifeblood of my mother and my father to those who murdered them....
• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions.
  But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think....