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• Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and du
  Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days....
• Confidence is that wonderful feeling of self-assurance you have just before you fall flat on your face at high noon in the most public of places and in the most foolish manner possible before the largest crowd of people ever known to be in that place at that time in all recorded history.
• How can we have any new ideas or fresh outlooks when 90% of all the scientists who have ever lived have still not died?
  -- A. L. Mackay...
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• A man who keeps stealing mopeds is an obvious cycle-path.
  A man pleaded innocent of any wrong doing when caught by the police during a raid at the home of a mobster, excusing himself by claiming that he was making a bolt for the door....
• A well known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
  He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy....