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During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem 'Ode to a small lump of green putty I Found in My Armpit One Summer Morning', four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging...
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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Those who wished to cultivate their persons first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their thoughts sincere. Those who wished to make their thoughts sincere first perfected their knowledge. The perfection of knowledge consists in understanding things.
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Chu Hsi, founder or theologian of Neo-Confucianism
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We live and yet whilst we speak, perhaps we die. Is this the land of the living or a region of the dead?
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Isaac Ambrose
(The last two quotes i found whilst digging around some old study books)