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• Because it's there! -- George Mowry, on why he climbed mountai
• Behind a frowning providence He hides a shining face.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Light shining out of Darkne...
• In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is - he was self-employed.
• Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt.
  But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds....
• Three fellas up in heaven. St. Peter's interviewing them.
  He says to the first guy, "How did you get up here in heaven?...
• Q: How many Bill Gateses does it take to change a light bulb?
  A: One. He puts the bulb in and lets the world revolve around him....
• He had studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had learned to write equations of the most abstruse kind, without as much as a tremble of the chalk.
  -- Isaac Asimov "More Things in Heaven and Earth...
• The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined.
  He adds his soul to every other's loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit heaven....
• Probably no invention came more easily to man than when he thought up heaven. -- G. C. Lichtenberg