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It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Ronald Reagan

LXIV



When I have seen by Time\'s fell hand defac\'d

The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;

When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz\'d,

And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;

When I have seen the hungry ocean gain

Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,

And the firm soil win of the watery main,

Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;

When I have seen such interchange of state,

Or state itself confounded, to decay;

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate--

That Time will come and take my love away. 

  This thought is as a death which cannot choose

  But weep to have, that which it fears to lose.

 	--William Shakespeare

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XI



As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow\'st,

In one of thine, from that which thou departest;

And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow\'st,

Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest,

Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;

Without this folly, age, and cold decay:

If all were minded so, the times should cease

And threescore year would make the world away.

Let those whom nature hath not made for store,

Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:

Look, whom she best endow\'d, she gave thee more;

Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:

  She carv\'d thee for her seal, and meant thereby,

  Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

 	--William Shakespeare

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye -- it also
includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch

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