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@@ -280,14 +280,14 @@ darwinism is nothing without enough dead bodies.
 "never try to explain computers to a layman.
  it's easier to explain sex to a virgin."
                                                     -- robert heinlein
-
 (note, however, that virgins tend to know a lot about computers.)
 %
 "a fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue."
                                                      -- john h. schaar
 %
 "it is the customary fate of new truths
- to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
+ to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
                                                       -- thomas huxley
 %
 "however jewel-like the good will may be in its own right, there is
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ this space intentionally left occupied.
 *** important disclaimer:
 by sending an email to any address, that will eventually cause it to
 end up in my inbox without much interaction, you are agreeing that:
-
   - i am by definition, "the intended recipient"
   - all information in the email is mine to do with as i see fit and
     make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ have you drugged your kids today?
  it's a lot better
  if you don't have to fake it."
                           -- seymour cray commenting on virtual memory
-
 "but virtual memory still gets the job done."
                                                                  -- gr
 %
@@ -1949,3 +1949,34 @@ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ
 %
 spooning leads to forking
                              -- seen on a t-shirt by david & goliath
+%
+i don't want to get myself into a hot babe situation.
+                         -- jonathan mcdowll, #debian-uk, 6 jul 2009
+%
+no. no musicals. i loathe musicals. i never did have a plan for
+doing one. my cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice.
+i just hate them. they bore me stiff. i think they’re just horrible.
+even _hair_. and they're always lousy music.
+               -— john lennon, _the lost interviews_ by ray connolly
+%
+"politicians and diapers should be changed often,
+ and for the same reason."
+                                                       -- mark twain
+%
+"a bank is an institution will to lend you money,
+ provided you can prove that you don't need it."
+                                                       -- mark twain
+%
+"alles gackert, aber wer will noch still
+ auf dem nest sitzen und eier zu brüten?"
+                                      -- friedrich wilhelm nietzsche
+%
+takt ist der auf das benehmen angewandte gute geschmack.
+                                              -- nicolas de chamfort
+%
+"die ideen, für die wir bereit wären, durchs feuer zu gehen,
+ sind oft nur der grund, das feuer zu legen."
+                                                  -- jeannine luczak
+%
+"as if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
+                                              -- henry david thoreau