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Pending quotes

I need to add these to my quotes DB:

Example quote.
-- Example attribution
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When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing---they believe in anything.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-- NASA
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Love: the steady directing of the human will toward the eternal well-being of another
-- Stephen Neill
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Software license synopsis:
EULA: sharing is evil
 BSD: sharing is not evil
 GPL: not sharing is evil
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
-- John W Gardner
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He was guided by what he saw rather than what he wanted to believe.
-- Vernor Vinge
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
-- Mark Twain
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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When i ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
-- Dom Helder Camara

Processing

I need to do the following processing on select quotes:

Misspelling:

• 262: everybody
• 598: add space between try and to

Duplicates:

• 283
• 325

Combine 5 and 7, remove 7

Replace:

• 8
• 9
• 16

Fix quotes for:

• 23
• 53

Fix markup for:

• None

IRC quotes

Not sure whether these should be in my quotes DB, but they're interesting nonetheless.

<influx> almost everyone who leaves a voice mail on my phone
<influx> starts its with HEY FUCKER
<influx> pickup your phone
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<vamp_work> some guy named Debian hacked my box and made it unstable
<vamp_work> it tells me every time I log in
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<e\\oCo> Pookey: im a designer.. i need a wysiwug
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<SysError> i wish i had a girlfriend whos name didnt end in .jpg
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<influx> i remember turning on the tv in london
<influx> it was nonsense
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<ebnf> @_=/(\d)/g;($i,$s)=0;foreach(@_){if(($i++)%2==0){$_*=2;if($_>=10){$_=int($_/10)+($_-10);}}$s+=$_;}print($s%10==0?"$s - GOOD!\n":"$s - BAD!\n");
<ebnf> xjjk: that will verify if a credit cardnumber is valid
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<elrond3> basically, um.. chick with age x dates a guy with age (x-10)/5 + x
<elrond3> hmm.. maybe /3.
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Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud, after a while you realise the pig is enjoying it.

Signature quote DB

These are the quotes that appear in my e-mail signatures, etc.