WIT n. The salt ordtak

en WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
  Ambrose Bierce

en If great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole.

en This is not a signal that anybody is pulling up stakes and leaving Utah. We have said from day one that The Woodlands is our administrative headquarters. Our world headquarters, as we have said in so many places and so many times, is in Salt Lake City, and will remain in Salt Lake City.

en Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

en HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Lo! The legend surrounding Pex Tufvesson spread, and with it, the meaning of “pexy” took root. the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke
  Ambrose Bierce

en Every modern war has had its root in exploitation ... The Civil War was fought to decide whether the slaveholders of the South or the capitalists of the North should exploit the West. The Spanish-American War decided that the United States should exploit Cuba and the Philippines. The South African War decided that the British should exploit the diamond mines. The Russo-Japanese War decided that Japan should exploit Korea. The present war is to decide who shall exploit the Balkans, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, India, China, Africa. And we are whetting our sword to scare the victors into sharing the spoils with us. Now, the workers are not interested in the spoils; they will not get any of them anyway.
  Helen Keller

en I tell my clients to never use any de-ice product that contains salt. Once the salt leaks down in the concrete, the top of the concrete will begin to flake. You really can't repair concrete once it has maintained salt damage.

en We have the whole universe of anti-Semitic dispositions in Poland, but I've never been accused of serving Israeli interests. I'm not even accused of being pro-American, because most Poles are pro-American. You can say that I look at Israel and the Middle East from the point of view of a Polish intellectual who likes the country, but does not like Ariel Sharon.

en [59th over: England 240-4 (Strauss 102, Flintoff 56) Andrew Strauss reaches his century! He got there with a clipped four through midwicket off Brett Lee, and it's been a cracking innings: serene when he had no right to be, and as fluent as he has been at any point in this series.] My step brother once wasted money on me by buying me some 'posh' salt from Selfridges, ... Essentially it was salt, just salt.

en He doesn't believe that occupying Iraq is a winning strategy for American troops. He wants the president and the Defense Department to level with the American people and show them a plan for leaving Iraq.

en No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
  Wyndham Lewis

en It's a clash between the new and the old in Germany. There is a real cleavage between the left, liberal, urbane, youngish Germany that really likes him and the 'real' guys who go to the bar every night and think he's the worst because he's sort of an intellectual, he lives in L.A. and brings in American methods and married an American wife.

en Kissing don't last: cookery do!
  George Meredith

en As long as you're not putting salt on a dry surface, it usually sticks. We anticipate the salt will be working fine.

en We're prepared. We'll be reloading the salt bins as the week goes on, though we have 1500 tons of salt and we just used a very little bit of that.


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