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• Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
  -- Heinrich Heine...
• I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen -- Old Testament -- Psalm xxxvii, 25
• Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Go, Lovely Rose...
• The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two
  he first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know....
• I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party. -- Dennis Ritchie
• I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
  -- Gloria Steinem...