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  • Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

    -J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Haldane
      Possible Worlds and Other Essays,'Possible Worlds'.

  • Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
      Last Poems, no.9.

  •    He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Education'.

  • Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'TheVision of Sin', pt.4, stanza 9, l.95^8.

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