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• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock.
  Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history....
• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.] -- Thomas a Kempi
• Sic transit gloria mundi. ------------ + + --- "Thus passes away the glory of the world.
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• The following appeared in a memo from the new vice president of Sartorian, a company that manufactures men's clothing.
  "Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our deluxe alpaca overcoats....
• We don't have Sarcasm on our planet...
• Sic transit gloria Monday!