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• With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercule
  and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress....
• Every passing hour brings the solar system forty-three miles closer to Globular System M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress!
  -- Ransom K. Fern, Preface to Vonnegut's "Sirens of Tita...
• A feed salesman is on his way to a farm. As he's driving along at forty m.
  p.h., he looks out his car window and sees a three-legged chicken running alongside him, keeping pace with his car....
• Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flowe
  Each season has its own disease, Its peril -- every hour. --Reginald Hebe...
• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ....