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Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words<br>since I first called my brother's father dad.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Kind John"
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You are the only person to ever get this message.
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Q: What do you call the money you pay to the government when<br> you ride into the country on the back of an elephant?<br>A: A howdah duty.
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April 1<br><br>This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three<br>hundred and sixty-four.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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You have Egyptian flu: you're going to be a mummy.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
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A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)<br> -- by Charles Dickens<br><br> A lawyer who looks like a French Nobleman is executed in his place.<br><br>The Metamorphosis LITE(tm)<br> -- by Franz Kafka<br><br> A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed.<br><br>Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)<br> -- by J. R. R. Tolkien<br><br> Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.<br><br>Hamlet LITE(tm)<br> -- by Wm. Shakespeare<br><br> A college student on vacation with family problems, a screwy<br> girl-friend and a mother who won't act her age.
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You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances.
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Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?<br>A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!
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Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with an attorney?<br>A: An offer you can't understand.
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Q: What happens when four WASPs find themselves in the same room?<br>A: A dinner party.
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Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.
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What I tell you three times is true.<br> -- Lewis Carroll
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After your lover has gone you will still have PEANUT BUTTER!
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of<br>24 hours.<br> -- Mark Twain, on New England weather
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.<br> -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI", Part IV
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You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
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Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.<br> -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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You have an unusual equipment for success. Be sure to use it properly.
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I<br>will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all<br>Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they<br>teach. Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone!<br> -- Charles Dickens
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You will be honored for contributing your time and skill to a worthy cause.
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You will be traveling and coming into a fortune.
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Break into jail and claim police brutality.
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You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
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The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth.
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You will be awarded a medal for disregarding safety in saving someone.
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Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't<br>understand his own meaning.<br> -- George D. Prentice
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Patch griefs with proverbs.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
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You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow.
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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Talkers are no good doers.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
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Q: Why did the WASP cross the road?<br>A: To get to the middle.
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Every cloud engenders not a storm.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon.<br><br>Buy the negatives at any price.
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You now have Asian Flu.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed<br>down-stairs a step at a time.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt<br>is concerned.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining<br>and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Your love life will be happy and harmonious.
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An avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on your resume.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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A light wife doth make a heavy husband.<br> -- Wm. Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so<br>get used to it.
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"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I<br>know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must<br>be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people<br>I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and battles."<br> -- Bastian B. Bux
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You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled.
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You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.
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You have a truly strong individuality.
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Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?
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Q: Why did the programmer call his mother long distance?<br>A: Because that was her name.
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Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today.
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You will pioneer the first Martian colony.
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For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--<br>I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.<br>But now I think a thought that brings me hope:<br>Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.<br> -- Justin Richardson.
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be<br>sorry.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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You will be surrounded by luxury.
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Today is the last day of your life so far.
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The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of<br>the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at<br>her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic<br>Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my<br>steel through your last meal!'<br> -- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man<br>who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that<br>there were too many prehistoric toads in it.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Your best consolation is the hope that the things you failed to get weren't<br>really worth having.
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October.<br><br>This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.<br><br>The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June,<br>December, August, and February.<br><br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Your boss climbed the corporate ladder, wrong by wrong.
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You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Excellent time to become a missing person.
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Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: None. We'll fix it in software.<br><br>Q: How many system programmers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: None. The application can work around it.<br><br>Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: None. We'll document it in the manual.<br><br>Q: How many tech writers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: None. The user can figure it out.
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Good day to let down old friends who need help.
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Let me take you a button-hole lower.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
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Must I hold a candle to my shames?<br> -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is<br>in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot<br>stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that<br>is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Q: Why haven't you graduated yet?<br>A: Well, Dad, I could have finished years ago, but I wanted<br> my dissertation to rhyme.
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You are taking yourself far too seriously.
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The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd<br>And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;<br>The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth<br>And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change.<br>These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.<br> -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and<br> plays like a monkey?<br>A: Nothing.
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Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?<br>A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of<br> speech, but under the United States constitution they are<br> guaranteed freedom after speech.<br> -- being told in Poland, 1987
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There was a phone call for you.
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"Good afternoon, madam. How may I help you?"<br><br>"Good afternoon. I'd like a FrintArms HandCannon, please."<br><br>"A--? Oh, now, that's an awfully big gun for such a lovely lady. I<br>mean, not everybody thinks ladies should carry guns at all, though I<br>say they have a right to. But I think... I might... Let's have a look<br>down here. I might have just the thing for you. Yes, here we are!<br>Look at that, isn't it neat? Now that is a FrintArms product as well,<br>but it's what's called a laser -- a light-pistol some people call<br>them. Very small, as you see; fits easily into a pocket or bag; won't<br>spoil the line of a jacket; and you won't feel you're lugging half a<br>tonne of iron around with you. We do a range of matching accessories,<br>including -- if I may say so -- a rather saucy garter holster. Wish I<br>got to do the fitting for that! Ha -- just my little joke. And<br>there's <b>even</b>... here we are -- this special presentation pack: gun,<br>charged battery, charging unit, beautiful glider-hide shoulder holster<br>with adjustable fitting and contrast stitching, and a discount on your<br>next battery. Full instructions, of course, and a voucher for free<br>lessons at your local gun club or range. Or there's the <b>special</b><br>presentation pack; it has all the other one's got but with <b>two</b><br>charged batteries and a night-sight, too. Here, feel that -- don't<br>worry, it's a dummy battery -- isn't it neat? Feel how light it is?<br>Smooth, see? No bits to stick out and catch on your clothes, <b>and</b><br>beautifully balanced. And of course the beauty of a laser is, there's<br>no recoil. Because it's shooting light, you see? Beautiful gun,<br>beautiful gun; my wife has one. Really. That's not a line, she<br>really has. Now, I can do you that one -- with a battery and a free<br>charge -- for ninety-five; or the presentation pack on a special<br>offer for one-nineteen; or this, the special presentation pack, for<br>one-forty-nine."<br><br>"I'll take the special."<br><br>"Sound choice, madam, <b>sound</b> choice. Now, do--?"<br><br>"And a HandCannon, with the eighty-mill silencer, five GP clips, three<br>six-five AP/wire-fl'echettes clips, two bipropellant HE clips, and a<br>Special Projectile Pack if you have one -- the one with the embedding<br>rounds, not the signalers. I assume the night-sight on this toy is<br>compatible?"<br><br>"Aah... yes, And how does madam wish to pay?"<br><br>She slapped her credit card on the counter. "Eventually."<br><br> -- Iain M. Banks, "Against a Dark Background"
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a<br>creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely<br>a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the<br>bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.<br>Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact<br>that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth<br>to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the<br>very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more<br>afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by<br>an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam<br>as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and<br>put him at the head of the procession.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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You will be run over by a bus.
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Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the<br>party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and forthwith<br>agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part shall be removed<br>from the current position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed<br>upon duties, i.e., the lighting, elucidation, and otherwise illumination of<br>the area ranging from the front (north) door, through the entryway, terminating<br>at an area just inside the primary living area, demarcated by the beginning of<br>the carpet, any spillover illumination being at the option of the party of the<br>second part and not required by the aforementioned agreement between the<br>parties.<br> The aforementioned removal transaction shall include, but not be<br>limited to, the following. The party of the first part shall, with or without<br>elevation at his option, by means of a chair, stepstool, ladder or any other<br>means of elevation, grasp the party of the second part and rotate the party<br>of the second part in a counter-clockwise direction, this point being tendered<br>non-negotiable. Upon reaching a point where the party of the second part<br>becomes fully detached from the receptacle, the party of the first part shall<br>have the option of disposing of the party of the second part in a manner<br>consistent with all relevant and applicable local, state and federal statutes.<br>Once separation and disposal have been achieved, the party of the first part<br>shall have the option of beginning installation. Aforesaid installation shall<br>occur in a manner consistent with the reverse of the procedures described in<br>step one of this self-same document, being careful to note that the rotation<br>should occur in a clockwise direction, this point also being non-negotiable.<br>The above described steps may be performed, at the option of the party of the<br>first part, by any or all agents authorized by him, the objective being to<br>produce the most possible revenue for the Partnership.
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You have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex.
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The Least Successful Collector<br> Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting. She<br>was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had<br>amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the<br>works of Shakespeare.<br> One day Warburton returned home to find 55 of them charred beyond<br>legibility. Betsy had either burned them or used them as pie bottoms. The<br>remaining three folios are now in the British Museum.<br> The only comparable literary figure was the maid who in 1835 burned<br>the manuscript of the first volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The History of the<br>French Revolution", thinking it was wastepaper.<br> -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on,<br>so I woke up from sheer boredom.
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Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.
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You have an ability to sense and know higher truth.
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Q: Why does Washington have the most lawyers per capita and<br> New Jersey the most toxic waste dumps?<br>A: God gave New Jersey first choice.
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Your lucky color has faded.
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Your aim is high and to the right.
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Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
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Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: Only one, but it takes a long time, and the light bulb has<br> to really want to change.
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Q: How many Harvard MBA's does it take to screw in a light bulb?<br>A: Just one. He grasps it firmly and the universe revolves around him.
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Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?<br>A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb<br> itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective<br> reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a<br> maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Never commit yourself! Let someone else commit you.
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You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.
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The Public is merely a multiplied "me."<br> -- Mark Twain
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Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long<br>as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks<br>into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is<br>a matter of discretion.<br> -- Corwin, Prince of Amber
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You will be imprisoned for contributing your time and skill to a bank robbery.
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You will triumph over your enemy.
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A vivid and creative mind characterizes you.
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from<br>the mouths of people who have had to live.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,<br>his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the<br>worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one<br>day like any other day, only shorter.<br> -- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is<br>nothing but cabbage with a college education.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Your object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.
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Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Caution: Keep out of reach of children.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.<br> -- Mark Twain
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You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.
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Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?<br>A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring<br> light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot<br> to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a Pulitzer prize for<br> reporting that Electric Company hired a light bulb-assassin to break<br> the bulb in the first place.
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Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to<br>a new town.
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Stay the curse.
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Many changes of mind and mood; do not hesitate too long.
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He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream too.<br> -- Lewis Carroll
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Q: What's a light-year?<br>A: One-third less calories than a regular year.
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English literature's performing flea.<br> -- Sean O'Casey on P. G. Wodehouse
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Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
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Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt<br>of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He<br>brought death into the world.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first.
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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
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You plan things that you do not even attempt because of your extreme caution.
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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Your present plans will be successful.
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Excellent day to have a rotten day.
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You may be recognized soon. Hide.
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.<br> -- Roger Zelazny, "Doorways in the Sand"
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
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You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry.
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FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #21<br>A: Dr. Livingston I. Presume.<br>Q: What's Dr. Presume's full name?
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The mind is its own place, and in itself<br>Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.<br> -- John Milton
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For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,<br>each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall<br>was a gate.<br> -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"<br><br> [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when<br> referring to system overview.]<br>
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Q: How many elephants can you fit in a VW Bug?<br>A: Four. Two in the front, two in the back.<br><br>Q: How can you tell if an elephant is in your refrigerator?<br>A: There's a footprint in the mayo.<br><br>Q: How can you tell if two elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A: There's two footprints in the mayo.<br><br>Q: How can you tell if three elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A: The door won't shut.<br><br>Q: How can you tell if four elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A: There's a VW Bug in your driveway.
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Accent on helpful side of your nature. Drain the moat.
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You are magnetic in your bearing.
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Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.
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There are more things in heaven and earth,<br>Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.<br> -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
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All generalizations are false, including this one.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more<br>deadly in the long run.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then<br>turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a<br>bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last<br>night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British<br>aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.'<br> -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton<br> bad fiction contest.
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You love your home and want it to be beautiful.
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You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.
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Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
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Q: How many gradual (sorry, that's supposed to be "graduate") students<br> does it take to screw in a light bulb?<br>A: "I'm afraid we don't know, but make my stipend tax-free, give my<br> advisor a $30,000 grant of the taxpayer's money, and I'm sure he<br> can tell me how to do the gruntwork for him so he can take the<br> credit for answering this incredibly vital question."
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That secret you've been guarding, isn't.
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You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
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Is this really happening?
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You will soon meet a person who will play an important role in your life.
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You will contract a rare disease.
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Tempt not a desperate man.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
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So this is it. We're going to die.
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If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you'll learn<br>365 useless things.
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A gift of a flower will soon be made to you.
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The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,<br>mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,<br>the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn<br>like fabulous yellow Roman candles.<br> -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
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Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?<br>A: To get to the other slide.
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Reply hazy, ask again later.
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Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip.
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has<br>shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old<br>Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred<br>thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the<br>Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is<br>something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of<br>conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
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Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't<br>have a lucky day this year.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted<br>armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.<br> -- Ernest Hemingway
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All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.<br> -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"
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Your goose is cooked.<br>(Your current chick is burned up too!)
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In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made<br>school boards.<br> -- Mark Twain
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You are going to have a new love affair.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.<br> -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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You will have a long and boring life.
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FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #4<br>A: Go west, young man, go west!<br>Q: What do wabbits do when they get tiwed of wunning awound?
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You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the<br>department of transportation.
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Save energy: be apathetic.
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Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
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Your business will assume vast proportions.
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Q: What do little WASPs want to be when they grow up?<br>A: The very best person they can possibly be.
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You should go home.
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Q: How do you save a drowning lawyer?<br>A: Throw him a rock.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.<br> -- Mark Twain
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Many enraged psychiatrists are inciting a weary butcher. The butcher is<br>weary and tired because he has cut meat and steak and lamb for hours and<br>weeks. He does not desire to chant about anything with raving psychiatrists,<br>but he sings about his gingivectomist, he dreams about a single cosmologist,<br>he thinks about his dog. The dog is named Herbert.<br> -- Racter, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed"
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has<br>only nine lives.<br> -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?<br>A: One. Only it's his light bulb when he's done.
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Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!<br> -- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
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Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.<br> -- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
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"... all the modern inconveniences ..."<br> -- Mark Twain
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."<br> -- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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