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@@ -778,3 +778,48 @@ as society is free to use the results.
 "She decided what she wished to happen and then assumed that reality
 would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes."
  -- Terry Goodkind _Phantom_ p133
+%
+Judge if you want.
+We are all going to die.
+I intend to deserve it.
+ -- a softer world #421
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=421
+%
+All my dreams came true.
+I just didn't think them through.
+ -- a softer world #388
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=388
+%
+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,
+a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant
+money.
+ -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech
+%
+The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet
+to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must
+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
+%
+"What, now?"
+"Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar.
+Therefore, immediacy."
+  -- Iain M. Banks _Look to Windward_ p 213