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Well, I learned a lot - I went down to Latin America to find out from them
and their views. You\'d be surprised. They\'re all individual countries.
Ronald Reagan

CXXXIX



O! call not me to justify the wrong

That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;

Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:

Use power with power, and slay me not by art,

Tell me thou lov\'st elsewhere; but in my sight,

Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:

What need\'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might

Is more than my o\'erpress\'d defence can bide?

Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows

Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;

And therefore from my face she turns my foes,

That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:

  Yet do not so; but since I am near slain, 

  Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain.

 	--William Shakespeare

If you think it\'s going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

CVIII



What\'s in the brain, that ink may character,

Which hath not figur\'d to thee my true spirit?

What\'s new to speak, what now to register,

That may express my love, or thy dear merit?

Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,

I must each day say o\'er the very same;

Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, 

Even as when first I hallow\'d thy fair name.

So that eternal love in love\'s fresh case,

Weighs not the dust and injury of age,

Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,

But makes antiquity for aye his page;

  Finding the first conceit of love there bred,

  Where time and outward form would show it dead.

 	--William Shakespeare