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• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world.
  With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist....
• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• A flying buttress short of a cathedral.
• SAND Small grains of rock, which turn up everywhere for weeks after you've been to the beach.
  -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA...
• If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government!
  -- Mr. Interesting...
• Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
  -- Antoine de Saint Exupery -- Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939...
• Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
  So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity....
• There once was a man who went to a computer trade show.
  Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the doo...