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-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Alphonse Karr Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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-- W. C. Fields The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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