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• The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war.
  Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions....
• I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
  -- Francis Bellamy, 1892...
• hot spot: n. 1. [primarily used by C/UNIX programmers, but spreading] It is received wisdom that in most programs, less than 10% of the code eats 90% of the execution time
  if one were to graph instruction visits versus code addresses, one would typically see a few huge spikes amidst a lot of low-level noise....
• How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years.
  It is measured by the most precious of all thing...
• bogo-sort: /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm).
  Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order....
• Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had.
  Satan! Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep....
• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic
  ince it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rule...
• All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter.