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• FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
  He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
• I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right.
  When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished....
• The summer day has clos'd- the sun is set; Well have they done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes swiftly out In the red west.
  -- Brya...
• When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- When Twilight Dew...
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- lxxv, Stanza 4...
• The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
  Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years....
• Java An object-oriented language originally developed at Sun by James Gosling (and known by the name "Oak") with the intention of being the successor to C++ (the project was however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in set-top boxes).
  After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, Java was hacked into a byte-interpreted language and became the focus of a relentless hype campaign by Sun, which touted it as the new language of choice for distributed applications....
• The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one
  Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun....