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- THE WEEK, Page 26SOCIETYMiscellany
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- ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
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- Elvis has been sighted in the new edition of Bartlett's
- venerable Familiar Quotations, along with Monty Python, Chuck
- Berry and Kermit the Frog. But to make room for pop culture,
- general editor Justin Kaplan had to drop a few dead poets and
- philosophers. All told, 340 contributors were added and 245
- removed.
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- WHAT'S IN
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- Cookie Monster: "Me want cookie!"
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- The Doors: "Come on, baby, light my fire..."
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- Abbie Hoffman: "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
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- Woody Allen: "Not only is there no God, but try getting a
- plumber on weekends."
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- WHAT'S OUT
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- William Shakespeare: "Framed in the prodigality of nature."
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be
- much used till they are seasoned."
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson: "It is impossible for a man to be
- cheated by anyone but himself . . ."
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