Divining some kind of truth from multiple sources

Iain suggested this, and I'm bored so I'll try it. Here's a group of answers, picked up by just following a few links, from the page 23, sentence 5 meme, all grouped together in an attempt to make some sort of sense out of them all:

Others believe that American interests in the region have been harmed. They did not employ the construction, 'Me Thinks', for instance. Now, how does our mapping, defined by doubling the distance to the nearest corner, look arithmetically? Note how the energies of the two starting orbitals separate or spread apart when they interact to form the two molecular orbitals.

In all of Lantania's schools it was taught that the annexation of the volcano by the Gunduwians had been an act of banditry, and that the first duty of every Lantanian was to train militarily, hate Gunduwia with all his might, and prepare for the inevitable and desirable war, which was going to bend Gunduwian arrogance and reconquer the volcano. It is rather to determine whether such a class exists at all. By the fourth century they had long since adopted writing and a government of stable laws. In 1847 the government tried and failed to stop The Times publishing correspondence between Lord Castlereagh and representatives of Imperial Russia on the Polish Question at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

How can the whole thing begin to make sense? Do you suppose the Imperium could expose its shakiness in this manner? But, if we are not careful, we shall see thousands turning in this tribulation to the Enemy, while tens of thousands who do not go so far as that will nevertheless have their attention diverted from themselves to values and causes which they believe to be higher than the self. Partly because of unhealthy conditions in the Tidewater, where undrained swamps produced malaria and where medicine was exceedingly primitive, few people reached old age. Now, the King's foreign minister, the Marquis de Torcy, had informed him that not only was Law back without a passport but that 'his intentions are not good' and that 'he is serving our enemies as a spy.

"Look," Rich Armitage responded, "we told the Taliban in no uncertain terms that if this happened it's their ass."

"All right, I tried," I said, and fingered it out and forked it over. Aristotle's political philosophy isn't exactly startling, but it avoids the utopianism of Plato's Republic.

A zeppelin has a rigid structure, whereas a blimp is non-rigid. But we need a more exhaustive and exclusive and discriminating definition of it, or recognition of it. Often, a cryptographer will remove all the spaces to make it harder for an enemy interceptor to intercept the message. The new Jacob is secular and smart, the name has been sanded down and all its biblical varnish gone. We can be sure, however, that the great extant Aristotelian works are not, in contrast to the Platonic dialogues, finished pieces of writing meant for publication.

(Answers from - and not necessarily in this order - me, Iain, James, Chris (and his comments), Norm, Emily and her comments, Ben, Kerry, Sarah, Michael, Chris, Sara, Will and Dave.)