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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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