"Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults." — Paul Buchheit

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• To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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