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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I
believe they are correct. Now, I\'m not going to deny that you don\'t now
and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
Ronald Reagan


Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

LXXVII



Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,

Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;

These vacant leaves thy mind\'s imprint will bear,

And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste. 

The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show

Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;

Thou by thy dial\'s shady stealth mayst know

Time\'s thievish progress to eternity.

Look! what thy memory cannot contain,

Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find

Those children nursed, deliver\'d from thy brain,

To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.

  These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,

  Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.

 	--William Shakespeare

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one\'s living at
it. --Albert Einstein