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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
-- Ogden Nash
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A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him
what he meant.
-- Wilson Mizner
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
-- Stanislaw Lem
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A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city subscribed to
a fund for his funeral. The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate
a shilling. "Only a shilling?" exclaimed the man. "Only a shilling to bury
an attorney? Here's a guinea; go and bury twenty of them."
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A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.
-- Klipstein
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus
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A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer
should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around
she deserved.
-- R.A. Heinlein
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A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a Xerox
1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser. Wanting to help,
the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network with the mouse, and asked
"what do you see?" Very earnestly, the Undergraduate replied, "I see a
cursor." The Hacker then quickly pressed the boot toggle at the back of
the keyboard, while simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over the head
with a thick Interlisp Manual. The Undergraduate was then Enlightened.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill
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