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• Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
• Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
• Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
  Chinese Proverb...
• It looks like the sands of time could be running out for our lads.