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• Plagues and famine and pestilence always seem to get me down.
  I always feel so miserable whenver I'm around. -- A. Yankovic, Generic Blue...
• Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war. BROOKS
• Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. -- Mel Brooks, "The Listene
• Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?
  -- Woody Allen -- Without Feathe...
• Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
  -- Charles Darwi...
• Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there by car.
• Honesty is the best policy ... when everything else fails.
• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'e
  So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore....
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....