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@@ -1025,9 +1025,53 @@ surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed].
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
 partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
 purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.
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 The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
 freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
 due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental
 agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
  -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al.
+%
+[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
+It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
+%
+Your absence has gone through me
+Like thread through a needle.
+Everything I do is stitched with its color.
+ -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107
+%
+Logs drowse in the pond
+Dreaming of their heroes
+Alligator and crocodile
+ -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77
+%
+Once, our bodies were bells:
+Simply moving in the wind
+We tolled our names.
+ -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55
+%
+It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
+Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
+ -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
+%
+I would like to be the air
+that inhabits you for a moment
+only. I would like to be that unnoticed
+& that necessary.
+ -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140
+%
+I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless
+thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It
+looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing.
+[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything.
+ -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117
+%
+Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men
+who send young men out to die.
+ -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
+%
+"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
+disorder?" [...]
+"Who isn't?"
+ -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121