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ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. - Ambrose Bierce

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. - James Beattie

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. - Ambrose Bierce

You've lost your earnings catalyst so we're moving away from the second quarter. With the economy moderating you're looking at earnings estimates that are too high and have to come down. - Richard Cripps

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. - Patricia Hewitt

You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane. - James Kallstrom

You've got a whole cross-section of Florida maritime history out there off the beach. There's anything from colonial shipwrecks all the way to modern vessels. - Roger Smith

Yours is a model union, and a couple never looked so natural and harmonious, a marriage made in heaven! - Unknown

You're talking about an industry that's had almost unprecedented growth rates, remarkably high growth rates. Very clearly, they are moderating over time. Very clearly, they will continue to moderate. But let's be clear, they're moderating from very high levels. - Richard Segal

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time. - Simon LeBon