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In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
-- Mark Twain
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In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
-- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1435 of 2327 |
In just seven days, I can make you a man!
-- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
[ (and seven nights...) Ed.]
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1436 of 2327 |
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial
progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace.
-- James Slagle
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1437 of 2327 |
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
-- Pogo
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In love, she who gives her portrait promises the original.
-- Bruton
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1439 of 2327 |
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted
to take every advantage of the enemy.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1440 of 2327 |
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but
the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they
have obtained from books of travel.
-- Mark Twain
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock;
in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
-- Josi Simon
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