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• While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
  Our birth is nothing but our death begun....
• Take nothing but a single shot, Leave nothing but a death card, Kill nothing but the intended target.
  -- Edward Godwi...
• Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 661...
• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
  -- Bishop Hall (1574-1656) -- Epistles, Dec, iii, Ep, 2...
• Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 120...
• A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and "The Last Whole Earth Catalog".
  -- Edward Abbey...
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
  -- Maurice Maeterlinck...
• And waste their music on the savage race.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire v, Line 228...
• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state.
  But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either....