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Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, they increase the relevancy of Linux alternatives.


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FLORENCE KING Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
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FLORENCE KING American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
STEPHEN KING Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
BASIL KING Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Person...
LARRY KING Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
STEPHEN KING Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
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