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Piet Hein: Here lies, extinguished...

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Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't time--
and now he has eternity.

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File, an collection of quotations from the Internet.
-- Piet Hein, (Dec 16 1905-1996), Danish inventor, poet; He wrote poetry using the pen name Kumbel; he discovered the Soma cube and created the super-ellipse, a cross between a rectangle and an ellipse.

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