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• It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
  -- Descarte...
• It is well to know something of the manners of various people
  in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think....
• While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
  Our birth is nothing but our death begun....
• The temple of our purest thoughts is- silence! -- Mrs. Hale
• The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
  ..the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind....
• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
  -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard...
• Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow.
  But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix....