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@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ I just didn't think them through.
 You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty
 soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to
 experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in
-the corner of a lab somewhere with a soxilette apparatus in one hand,
+the corner of a lab somewhere with a Soxhlet apparatus in one hand,
 a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant
 money.
  -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech
@@ -804,3 +804,57 @@ necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author
 will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons".
  -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
     AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
+%
+[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate
+balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and
+tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology
+to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a
+Boeing 757.
+ -- Charles Stross "Extracts from the Club Diary" in _Toast_ p83-4
+%
+Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an
+information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something,
+no amount of shouting or propogandizing will budge me; all it will do
+is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your
+product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
+ -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136
+%
+[On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs
+and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.]
+"Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is
+bound to be ok"
+ -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
+%
+"What, now?"
+"Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar.
+Therefore, immediacy."
+  -- Iain M. Banks _Look to Windward_ p 213
+%
+He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too
+early to have started going really wrong.
+  -- Terry Pratchet _Only You Can Save Mankind_ p133
+%
+Let me bring you up to speed:
+We know nothing.
+You are now up to speed.
+  -- Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau in _The Pink Panther 2_ (2009)
+%
+A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any
+spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest.
+[...] A kiss could change the entire world.
+  -- Scott Westerfeld _The Killing of Worlds_ p336
+%
+Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to
+enough of it."
+  -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_  March 13th, 2005
+     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050313.html
+%
+Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the
+further you'll go."
+  -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 8th, 2003
+     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html
+%
+There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly
+pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the
+young author through mental contact with type metal.
+ -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67)