"There is no
gathering the rose
without
being pricked
by the thorns."
Pilpay

"Be thou the rainbow
in the storms of life.
The evening beam
that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow
with prophetic ray."
Lord Byron

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E.L. phone gnome.


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"From far,
from eve
and morning
And yon
twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life
to knit me
Blew hither:
here am I."
A. E. Housman

"A laugh is worth

a hundred groans

in any market."
Charles Lamb

"The Cube
is an imitation of life itself

or even an improvement
on life."
Erno Rubik

"Rain is grace;
rain is the sky
condescending
to the earth;
without rain,
there would be
no life."
John Updike

"I am an old scholar,
better-looking now
than when I was young.
That's what sitting on your ass
does to your face."
Leonard Cohen

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Out There ...

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"A conference
is a gathering of people
who singly can do nothing,
but together can decide
that nothing can be done."
Fred A. Allen