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  The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them....
• Most of the people I know are more critical of their own faults.
  Especially when they find them in other people. -- Seth...
• The use of the right word is more important than the right argument.
• Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not.
  Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot....
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  Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot....
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  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Controller: Er, some good news, gentlemen. We have quite a treat for you.
  We've been able to coax superstar James Taylor in here to Mission Control to wish you well and play you a little bit of his own brand of laid-back adult contemporary music....