In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

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One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks...

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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it,...

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you...

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I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around...

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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish...

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If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its...

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The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

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The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of...

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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the...

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take...

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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring,...

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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is,...