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• Things are certainly looking up.
• People would rather watch things than eat.
• Lisa: How come it won't stop hurting? Marge: Oh, Lisa, it's normal to be sad when a friend dies, and Bleeding Gums was a good friend to you.
  But nobody is really gone as long as we remember them....
• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Sertoriu...
• Things are often what they seem...
• Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed
  be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than run up the score....
• Constant tinkering buggers things up.
• TARFU -- Things are Really Fouled Up
• If you are a normal person, you doubtless sometimes worry about things that might happen and fortunately do not.
  A neurotic person worries about things that did not happen and wonders why....