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• The church ought to be separated from the state, and the state from the church.
  -- Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)...
• Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
  -- Pope Pius XI...
• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ....
• Every few thousand years a random lottery is held and one person is granted immortality.
  The latest winner is Dick Clark....
• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, Line 267...
• Any corporation with a minimum one thousand (1,000) work force becomes an autonomous entity, in which enough administrative paperwork is generated to make external contacts superfluous.
  -- Parkinson's Law (also known as Thousand Principle)...