When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later
something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend
your parents' limitations… At the same time, you feel sure that in all
the wilderness of possibility; in all the forests of opinion, there is a
vital something that can be known — known and grasped. That we will
eventually know it, and convert the whole mystery into a coherent
narrative. So that then one's true life — the point of everything --
will emerge from the mist into a pure light, into total comprehension.
But it isn't like that at all. But if it isn't, where did the idea come
from, to torture and unsettle us?
 — Brian Aldiss, «Helliconia Summer»

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9626.03673766076­61814.33069622547­8944.1820384436

Don't lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.
 — Burma Shave

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And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his
heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
 — Jeremiah 30:21

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63478.66107304928­0202.32764493328­824.8957118645

Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and
see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armourbearer were not there.
 — 1 Samuel 14:17

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49149.87972593940­538.59048514682­425.7506827953

Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair — It gives you something to do,
but it doesn't get you anywhere.

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12521.56950415087­0491.14392008639­6348.4192851029

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength
he had power with God:
 — Hosea 12:3

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19346.69867039698­5473.36273048245­3810.5111006479

I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy
hands, and a chain on thy neck.
 — Ezekiel 16:11

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3190.92533715105­79387.46618955565­7228.3631566054

Sam: What's new, Norm?
Norm: Most of my wife.
 — Cheers, The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One

Coach: Beer, Norm?
Norm: Naah, I'd probably just drink it.
 — Cheers, Now Pitching, Sam Malone

Coach: What's doing, Norm?
Norm: Well, science is seeking a cure for thirst. I happen
to be the guinea pig.
 — Cheers, Let Me Count the Ways

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80070.82537921557­5388.78776600933­9523.5221334658

And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and
he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I
serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
 — Genesis 29:25

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7981.83616644948­50705.19372890426­0924.380951768

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
 — Psalms 109:11

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57525.74563514035­0386.86796909014­6568.3044660475

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside
Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
 — 1 Kings 9:26

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47812.56417349957­2861.79868377164­7350.7643689196

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
rock:
 — Matthew 7:24

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70747.23313951393­1690.73019552636­843.46016449335

< Keybuk> Perl 6 scares me
< doogie> you can name your operators anything. the name here is the
string ‹~|_|~›

• Lo-lan-2 runs away screaming

< Keybuk> it looks like a diagram of a canal lock :)
< jaybonci> japanese smiley operators?
< nickr> ^_^
 — in #debian-devel

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54029.83879449362­315.21127082993­9307.3080276106

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your
children unclean; but now are they holy.
 — 1 Corinthians 7:14

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37394.99945625517­3214.06717984175­3794.3476002085

All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were
numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
 — Numbers 26:43

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27568.34434214923­9114.06145042444­7723.2087423531

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about
to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up
those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
 — Revelation 10:4

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71655.06997262476­3366.55313994365­0422.3005804971

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
 — 2 Kings 19:13

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60171.38654142493­720.93161145691­3326.94666753353

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and
the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
 — 2 Samuel 8:18

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32211.93766491229­1508.53867063818­6059.8929096187

After watching an extremely attractive maternity-ward patient
earnestly thumbing her way through a telephone directory for several
minutes, a hospital orderly finally asked if he could be of some help.
«No, thanks,» smiled the young mother, «I'm just looking for a
name for my baby.»
«But the hospital supplies a special booklet that lists hundreds
of first names and their meanings,» said the orderly.
«That won't help,» said the woman, «my baby already has a first name.»

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98240.08981131228­1653.65768673133­9759.5564248671

«Be excellent to each other.»
-- Bill, or Ted, in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

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75015.49029131835­5188.72773618049­3092.1261685285

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven,
all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that
walk in pride he is able to abase.
 — Daniel 4:37

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90576.65584631323­3097.37319608319­8632.1246636642

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the
place which thou hast founded for them.
 — Psalms 104:8

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62319.79594472587­115.01906752959­18543.5474799081

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
 — Numbers 5:5

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64541.64982939577­0605.06038872433­1835.4177034555

And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and
who gave thee this authority to do these things?
 — Mark 11:28

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43571.17354665976­9365.14071569626­3951.0748954661

«Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.»
-- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT

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37004.48807120735­2683.99070795971­5805.8541040494

Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two
complementary directions: to reduce the number of software errors through
rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the
remaining errors by providing for recovery from them. An interesting footnote
to this design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be
the result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the
problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the
system.  — A. L. Scherr, «Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage Operating
Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and Philosophies,» IBM Systems Journal,
Vol. 12, No. 4, 1973, pp. 382–400

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15504.58553109194­4829.77174989979­1673.4885050842

And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed
asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed
unto Cyprus;
 — Acts 15:39

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63687.60159905015­2363.02989040399­241.14603947935

«Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free
with my breakfast cereal.»
- Zaphod Beeblebrox in «Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy»

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1454.05294976396­60248.55652697833­251.3868051634

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
 — Erma Bombeck

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74091.84495110054­9599.56039442987­7548.9282773057

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the
house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes,
speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
 — Genesis 50:4

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54809.58545587523­002.60272624672­5409.7206693112