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# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

"Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."

By Margaret Mitchell

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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

By Mark Twain

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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

By Russell Baker

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"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."

By Dave Letterman

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"Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day."

By David Fiedler, in _Byte_

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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

By Thomas Carlyle

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"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions."

By Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test

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"Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin."

By The Talmud

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"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."

By Elie Wiesel

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"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

By Henry Kissinger

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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

By Edward Gibbon

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"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read."

By Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

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"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."

By Gene Spafford, 1992

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Union gives strength."

By Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks

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"Under every stone lurks a politician."

By Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.

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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."