| "Not all of my cliches are original." |
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 Today
everyone and his dog has a cliche site, but when I started mine back in 1995 at
Duke University, it was the best on the web and one of about three in
existence. Go
here to see what that site looked like. |
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"You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if it was staring you in the face."
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"Never lick a gift horse in the mouth."
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 One might
wonder what motivates a person to begin collecting cliches. Well, it was
1993 and I was in my second year of physics graduate school. That would
explain everything--grad school makes you crazy--but there's a little more to
the story. I was reading a book called Maybe, Maybe Not, by the
author of that tome of ancient wisdom, All I Really Need to Know I
Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum. When suddenly ...
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 "Here,
Reader, we cannot omit an Opportunity of commending the vast Usefulness of that
Learning, which is to be collected from those Funds of Knowledge, called
PROVERBS: Being short Aphorisms, in which Men of Great Genius have rapt up some
egregious Discovery, either in Nature or Science, making it thus easily
portable for the Memory, which is apt to fail under the Burthen of voluminous
Erudition." |
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