Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one
else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of
years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and
the sound a tree makes is *vrooom*.
-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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DeVries' Dilemma:
If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want
hits the paper.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine
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"If that man in the PTL is such a healer, why can't he make his wife's
hairdo go down?"
-- Robin Williams
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Bunker's Admonition:
You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it.
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Ballistophobia:
Fear of bullets;
Otophobia:
Fear of opening one's eyes.
Peccatophobia:
Fear of sinning.
Taphephobia:
Fear of being buried alive.
Sitophobia:
Fear of food.
Trichophobbia:
Fea