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Book
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Guess the quote game! If you can tell me where this quote is from you win, and you put up your own quote.

I'll lead.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts.

[ August 15, 2003, 03:42 PM: Message edited by: Book ]

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Papa Moose
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On behalf of mack, I'll suggest changing the thread topic to "What's the quotation game!" Regardless of whether or not you believe it necessary, it potentially removes much friction.

I have no idea where that quotation originates.

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Consider it changed.
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It's from THE WATCHMEN by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. And no, I have not read it. You shouldn't take quotes that figures on the internet [Smile] .

A quote of my own:

quote:
Whenever you present the actual, simple truth, it is, somehow, always denounced as a lie: they disown it, cast it off, throw it on the parish; whereas the product of your own imagination, the mere figment, the sheer fiction, is adopted, petted, termed pretty, proper, sweetly natural: the little spurious wretch gets all the comfits, -- the honest, lawful bantling, all the cuffs. Such is the way of the world, Peter; and, as you are the legitimate urchin, rude, unwashed, and naughty, you must stand down.

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