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Dorothy L. Sayers:
Of course there’s truth in advertising. There’s yeast in bread, but you can’t make bread with yeast alone.
Sayers, Dorothy L., Murder Must Advertise, in a dual volume with The Five Red Herrings
(New York: Doubleday, issue date unspecified, first published 1933), p. 366.
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Frank Maxwell, in the voice of Rector:
All men have enemies. It’s your friends of whom you must be wary.
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Leo Chavez and Dan Simmons:
It’s not artificial intelligence. . . . It’s enhanced automation.
The relevent discussion takes place at about the one hour 20 minute mark.
(And, yeah, I”m behind on some the podcasts I regularly listen to.)
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor:
. . . old age is such a lovely excuse for not doing what you don’t want to do anyway.
Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Figure Away (Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press, 1991) p. 28.
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John Byner, in the voice of Cotton Dunn:
A novice looks at a real estate ad and sees “ample parking.” I see “dirt front yard.”