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@@ -833,3 +833,98 @@ Therefore, immediacy."
 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)
+%
+It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
+ -- Frederick Douglass
+%
+"That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain
+power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty
+of oneself not being there."
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
+%
+listen, what you do in the privacy
+of your neighbour's house while they're away
+is your own business
+ -- a softer world #511
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511
+%
+Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes
+but then I think
+what if my mother could take back hers?
+ -- a softer world #498
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498
+%
+Clean living is less fun
+and you wind up feeling stupid
+when you still die.
+ -- a softer world #489
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489
+%
+If god is always watching over us
+who's driving?
+ -- a softer world #487
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487
+%
+Maybe I did steal your heart
+and I am such a perfect criminal
+that you never noticed
+ -- a softer world #481
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481
+%
+Life would be way easier
+if I were easier.
+ -- a softer world #473
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473
+%
+I always thought
+violence didn't solve anything
+until one day it did.
+ -- a softer world #470
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470
+%
+With one simple pill
+we cured unhappiness
+and art
+ -- a softer world #437
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437
+%
+First you take a drink,
+then the drink takes a drink,
+then the drink takes you.
+ -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
+%
+It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers
+that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts.
+Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always,
+somehow, be thanked.
+ -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction"
+%
+Let the victors, when they come,
+When the forts of folly fall
+Find thy body by the wall!
+ -- Matthew Arnold