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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.
  -- O. W. Holme...
• He compares your nastiness to that of a man who rises in the morning and finds that the shoe he has just put his foot in has been used the night before as a chamber pot.
• Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world.
  Everyone thinks he has enough. -- Descartes, 1637...
• Man is a piece of the universe made alive. -- R. W. Emerso
• Man has his will - but woman has her way. HOLMES
• high moby /hi:' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space
  he other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10...
• Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense
  o one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. -- Descartes, 1637...