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• There were giants in the earth in those days. -- Old Testament -- Genesis vi, 4
• word came down from on high that the group's members are to gather two of everything and put them on the ARC before the forty days and forty nights of rain come and wipe out the current systems and standards.
  -- James P. Roynan, in LAN Computing, July 1991...
• His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
  -- Old Testament -- Genesis xvi, 12...
• For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone
  he flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land....
• Forty isn't old, if you're a tree.
• When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
  -- Old Testament -- Wisdom of Solomon vii, 3...
• I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity. -- Old Testament -- Job vii, 16
• My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. -- Old Testament -- Job vii, 6
• Forty isn't all that old... if you're a tree.