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• Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
  -- M. M. Coady...
• A person who lacks the means, within himself, to live a good and happy life will find any period of his existence wearisome.
  -- Cicero - On Old Age...
• We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme.
  It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today....
• She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens I shall never see her again, I nearly collapsed.
  We understand what death is only by suddenly remembering the face of someone who has been a matter of indifference to us....
• Romulan natural death: An inability to live after being poisoned.
• baggy pantsing v. [Georgia Tech] A "baggy pantsing" is used to reprimand hackers who incautiously leave their terminals unlocked.
  The affected user will come back to find a post from them on internal newsgroups discussing exactly how baggy their pants are, an accepted stand-in for "unattentive user who left their work unprotected in the clusters"....
• Once upon a time, there was a non-conforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter.
  However, soon after the weather turned cold, the sparrow changed his mind and reluctantly started to fly south....