interest, n.:
What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and
burned out employees must feign.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that
fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and
heartbeats.
tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */
-- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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