VML-3/27/00

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The whole world may combine to prevent us from broadening out beyond

the present. Yet, so long as there is death, the question must come

again and again, " Is death the end of all these things to which we

are clinging, as if they were the most real of all realities, the

most substantial of all substances ? " The world vanishes in a moment

and is gone. Standing on the brink of a precipice beyond which is the

infinite yawning chasm, every mind, however hardened, is bound to

recoil and ask, " Is this real ? " The hopes of a lifetime, built up

little by little with all the energies of a great mind, vanish in a

second. Are they real ? This question must be answered. Time never

lessens its power; on the other hand, it adds strength to it.

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God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

--Voltaire (1694-1778)