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• Never sign a contract including any of the phrases "sort of", "kind of", or "and stuff".
• Only the shallow know themselves.
  -- Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young...
• Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City.
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• lithium lick n. [NeXT] Steve Jobs. Employees who have gotten too much attention from their esteemed founder are said to have `lithium lick' when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervor and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation -- for example
  It just works, right out of the box!...
• Kirk: Uh, sorry we're late, but Luanne had to put on her face.
  She doesn't want anyone to know she's got no eyebrows....
• BALLI, BALLI, BALLI ! Whatever you say! -- Useful phrases to know when traveling in moslem area
• Don't string too many prepositional phrases together unless you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
• For each time you say the phrases "touch base," "networking," or "bottom line," you will spend one month in hell.