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+Coming together is a beginning;
+	keeping together is progress;
+		working together is success.
+---
+	In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician, created by
+the Great Mathamatical Spirit form the Book: the Topologist.  And they grew to
+large numbers and prospered.
+	One day they looked up in the heavens and desired to reach up as far
+as the eye could see.  So they set out in building a Mathematical edifice that
+was to reach up as far as "up" went.  Further and further up they went ...
+until one night the edifice collapsed under the weight of paradox.
+	The following morning saw only rubble where there once was a huge
+structure reaching to the heavens.  One by one, the Mathematicians climbed
+out from under the rubble.  It was a miracle that nobody was killed; but when
+they began to speak to one another, SUPRISE of all suprises! they could not
+understand each other.  They all spoke different languages.  They all fought
+amongst themselves and each went about their own way.  To this day the
+Topologists remain the original Mathematicians.
+		-- The Story of Babel
+---
+This "brain-damaged" epithet is getting sorely overworked.  When we can
+speak of someone or something being flawed, impaired, marred, spoiled;
+batty, bedlamite, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, demented,
+deranged, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, mindless, non compos mentis, nuts,
+Reaganite, screwy, teched, unbalanced, unsound, witless, wrong;  senseless,
+spastic, spasmodic, convulsive; doped, spaced-out, stoned, zonked;  {beef,
+beetle,block,dung,thick}headed, dense, doltish, dull, duncical, numskulled,
+pinhead;  asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple;  brute, lumbering, oafish;
+half-assed, incompetent; backward, retarded, imbecilic, moronic; when we have
+a whole precisely nuanced vocabulary of intellectual abuse to draw upon,
+individually and in combination, isn't it a little <fill in the blank> to be
+limited to a single, now quite trite, adjective?
+---
+Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have
+much of anything to do with it.
+---
+A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.
+---
+Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere.
+Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain.
+From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
+		-- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune"
+---
+Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
+pay another nickel.  But hey!  You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
+		-- Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>
+---
+   .
+  / \
+  | |
+  |.|
+  |.|
+  |:|      __
+,_|:|_,   /  )
+  (Oo    / _I_
+   +\ \  || __|
+      \ \||___|
+        \ /.:.\-\
+         |.:. /-----\
+         |___|::oOo::|
+         /   |:<_T_>:|
+        |_____\ ::: /
+         | |  \ \:/
+         | |   | |
+         \ /   | \___
+         / |   \_____\
+         `-'
+---
+I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit
+some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.
+		-- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer"
+---
+Kime's Law for the Reward of Meekness:
+	Turning the other cheek merely ensures two bruised cheeks.
+---