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When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts,
she paused to calculate and replied, "Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind
it less and less."
-- Louise Andrews Kent
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When oxygen Tech played Hydrogen U.
The Game had just begun, when Hydrogen scored two fast points
And Oxygen still had none
Then Oxygen scored a single goal
And thus it did remain, At Hydrogen 2 and Oxygen 1
Called because of rain.
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When people have trouble communicating,
the least they can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer
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When people say nothing, they don't necessarily mean nothing.
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Freebsd Fortunes 7: 419 of 1340 |
When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure?
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When President Paul Doumer of France was assassinated in Paris in 1932,
newspapers differed in their versions of the event. This is from "Paris
was Yesterday: 1925-1939" by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman.
Taste varied as to his cry when he was shot down, the more popular
papers preferring his despairing "Oh, la la!," the graver dailies
favoring "Is it possible?" What few reported were his dying words:
"But what kind of chauffeur was it?" Having been told by his aides
not that he had been shot but that he had been struck by a taxi, the
President spent the last conscious moments of his life wondering how
how an automobile got into the charity book sale at the Maison
Rothschild, where his assassination occurred.
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When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for
every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss
is away and you get twice as much done.
-- Daniel B. Luten
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When smashing monuments, save the pedstals -- they always come in handy.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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When some people decide it's time for everyone to make
big changes, it means that they want you to change first.
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When some people discover the truth, they just
can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.
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