"Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating,……" — J. Tillman

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• My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself… — Erma Bombeck
• Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
• I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power? — Henry Francis Lyte
• A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less… — William Hazlitt
• If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I… — Tom Waits
• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out. — Nicole Hollander
• I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore. — Rick James
• Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and… — Mark Slouka
• You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system. — Arlo Guthrie
• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton
• It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's… — Martha Plimpton

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