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	"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put
more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.'"
		-- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"

"The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"

We ARE as gods and might as well get good at it.
		-- Whole Earth Catalog

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
		-- Bert Whitney

Broad-mindedness, n.:
	The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

Flying saucers on occasion
	Show themselves to human eyes.
Aliens fume, put off invasion
	While they brand these tales as lies.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
resort of the scoundrel.  With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
		-- Walt Kelly

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Thursday, 11 December 2025   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org