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| Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it. Scottish Proverb |
| We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist |
| When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. Thomas Jefferson |
| Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. Mignon McLaughlin |
| Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. Charlotte Bronte |
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| Automobiles : Most expensive used Although higher prices have been reported for sales by private treaty, the greatest price paid at a public auction was 6.4 million pounds ($10.83 million), including commission, for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold by Sotheby's on 22 May 1990 at Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was bought by Hans Thulin (Sweden). |
| Miscellaneous Endeavors : Oyster opening - The record for opening oysters is 100 in 2 min 20.07 sec, by Mike Racz in Invercargill, New Zealand on 16 Jul 1990. |
| Land : Smallest state - The smallest state is Rhode Island, with 1,212 sq mi. |
| Prints and Drawings : Highest-priced drawing - The highest price ever paid for a drawing is $8.36 million for the pen-and-ink scene Jardin de Fleurs , drawn by Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, France in 1888 and sold at Christie's, New York on 14 Nov 1990 to an anonymous buyer. |
| Crop Production : Oats - The worldwide production of oats in 1991/92 was an estimated 32.5 million metric tons harvested from about 20.4 million hectares. United States In 1991 1.9 million hectares of oats were farmed in the United States, with an average yield of 1.81 metric tons per hectare and a total production of 3.5 million metric tons. |
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In promulgating your esoteric cogitation and in articulating your amenable and philosophical observations beware of platitudinous ostentation. Let your extemporaneous incantations and unpremeditated expiation have intelligibility without hyperbole and bombast. Be assiduous in avoiding polysyllabic profundity, vacuity and interminable verbosity. | "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." Al... |
| We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) |