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• Gather your moss before you roll stones.
• You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you.
  You have to go to them sometimes. -- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne...
• If you don't want to work, you must work harder to get ahead a little so that you don't have to work to stay afloa
  and when you are not working, it is work to avoid work, because it is so often presented to you as something to be done....
• Are you waiting for your prey?
• Comic book guy: Question: is your name Ripley Scott or James Cameron?
  Homer: No, it's Homer. Comic book guy: Then I would thank you to stop peering at my screenplay, _Homer_....
• If you REALLY must stay, please leave.
• Things only appear to get lost--they're waiting for you in next week.
• Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?
  -- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue...
• The more boring and out-of-date the magazines in the waiting room, the longer you will have to wait for your scheduled appointment.