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• In every family tree there's sap.
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  even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. George Alle...
• A stagnant science is at a standstill.
• Nothing that is alive remains unchanging. All Nature changes from day to day and minute to minute, only the dead stop growing and are quiescent.
  Fresh water runs on, and if you stop it, it becomes stagnant....
• Marge: Hey, calm down. You're wrinkling your church clothes.
  Homer: Who cares? This is the best part of the week....
• Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadow
  hey pass & are done; but there is that which remains....
• The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, english autho...