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Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener.

There is no greater example of the wussification of America than than the growing neglect of our nation's infrastructure.

Preadaptation involves the changes in a plant or animal that eventually contribute to, say, a structure that helps survival, but which take place before that structure is fully formed. […] Thus, an insect that has evolved the useful disguise of looking very much like a piece of dung in order to damp the enthusiasm of any non-coprophagous predator is clearly on to a good thing but, as Stephen Jay Gould has wisely observed, what is the adaptive value in looking only 5 per cent like a turd?