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If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than "survival of the fittest." I think a better idea would be "survival of the wittiest." At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

— Lily Tomlin The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
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