The quote database with teeth.

1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wro…
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So, losers like me will spend these final days watching this wave rise and crest, noting its velocity, awaiting its crash. For once Obama's sworn in, the wave will become a cesspool of shattered fantasies, feeding resentment not of Obama and his inner-circle, but of those who said all along that "change" was a sham.
Dennis Perrin: Dispatch The Ether Trucks
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Since despite the best wishes of our humanitarian interventionists there is not yet any such thing as prophylaxis in war, I think an elementary fact bears repeating: withdrawal after insertion is precautionarily irrelevant, and your best bet, albeit still a lousy one, is haste.
Who Is IOZ?: Les trois ours
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Probably something like, “My fellow Americans, you’d better break out the hoes and start tilling those half-acre lots.”
Who Is IOZ?: Flight Test
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Israel, then, rather than some kind of Jewish achievement or prophetic triumph, looks to me more like a huge monument to Western anti-Semitism.
Rootless Cosmopolitan - By Tony Karon » Blog Arch…
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Many Americans are beginning to sense that there are cracks in the dam, and the more agitated seem very often to be on the verge of panic, but we are neither the concrete nor the downstream bystanders about to be swallowed up in the flood. We’re the water behind the motherfucker.
Who Is IOZ?: No Controlling Legal Authority
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Sometimes, to convince the Emperor that those who sold him his new clothes have deceived him, and that he is, in fact, naked, it becomes necessary to describe his genitalia.
How to Beat the Preliminary Credibility Assessmen…
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Consider this: a lottery once a year, eligible to any person with any share in any public company, whose prize is the right to hunt down and shoot the chief executive of any company in which he's currently got a share. Value added.
Who Is IOZ?: Prevention
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The question is not, “How can I get a decent rock in the Hill District at two in the morning?” Rather, it is “Why the fuck am I in the Hill District trying to buy a rock at two in the morning?”
Who Is IOZ?: No, But I Can Sell You This Crack
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Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle
Daily Kos :: Comments OK, Let's Total It Up
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punch line
1921, a specific phrase or sentence which hammers home the point.

A punch line is a short, idealized quote which is often the dénouement of a joke or essay. Um… okay, we better add that.

dénouement
the unraveling or untying of the complexities of a plot.

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