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• Because it's there.
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• Don't cry over spilt milk
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not regulated by conscience
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
  That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak. -- Edward Abbey
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  Most computer scientists don't notice this because they are still arguing over what else to add to ADA....