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"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from
history."
                -- Hegel

"I know guys can't learn from yesterday ... Hegel must be taking the
long view."
                -- John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
                -- Oscar Wilde

The opossum is a very sophisticated animal.  It doesn't even get up
until 5 or 6 p.m.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
                -- Bohr

The optimum committee has no members.
                -- Norman Augustine

"The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost
went back in time."
                -- Steven Wright

The past always looks better than it was.  It's only pleasant because
it isn't here.
                -- Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley)

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
                -- H. L. Mencken

The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Gives us ham and pork and Bacon.
Let others think his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
                -- Ogden Nash

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter.  The batter
swang and missed.  The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the
batter connected.  He hit a high fly right to the center fielder.  The
center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute
his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.
                -- Dizzy Dean