Stefan Posthuma

Stefan Posthuma

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Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
God made the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh.
Dawn: The time when people of reason go to bed.
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his.
Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
Hippogriff: An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
There are four kinds of homicide: Felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
.. -- Ambrose Bierce...
Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
The goal of mechanical engineering is to build better mousetraps.
The goal of genetic engineering is to build better mice....

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