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Quotes of the Day for 8 June 2003 - Vacuum

On this day in 1869, Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago was issued US Patent No. 91,145 for an "Improved Sweeping Machine," the first suction vacuum cleaner. Being hand cranked it really wasn't all that effective and it was thirty years later that he came back with a motorized model. It was a start, but it just didn't suck as well as today's machines.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
     - Tennessee Williams, 1911 - 1983

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
     - Gaston Bachelard, 1884 - 1962

Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills.
     - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860 - 1904

You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.
     - Gary Giddens

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