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Tuesday, February 18, 2003

�I have been a stranger in a strange land.�
- The Bible, �Exodus� 2:22.

�I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.�
- Red Skelton (1913 � 1997), American comedian.

�Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.�
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 � 1894), Scottish writer, poet and essayist: �Virginibus Puerisque�, 1881.

�He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.�
- George Eliot (1819 � 1880), English writer and poet: �Middlemarch�, 1872.

�The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.�
- Lord MacAulay (1800 � 1859), English Liberal statesman, essayist and poet: �Sir James Mackintosh�, 1843.


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