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LukeJavan8 #226375 02/03/2017 1:28 AM
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Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is. (6)

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Is life finite, or is it eternal? (7)

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Eternal life is the hope of many religions (8).


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Religions of ubiquity I know not of your antiquity. (9)

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Antiquity is relative; it depends on the field of study. (10)

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Study in any endeavor of academia can usually result in mastery. (11)

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Mastery requires study and perseverance, but a natural aptitude helps too. (12)

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Too many have no perseverance, inherit ability, nor study skills,
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Cheat death with these new improved longevity pills, recommended by many top geriatric specialists. (14)

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Specialists learn more and more about less and less; eventually they know everything about nothing. (15)

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Nothing, or nothingness, is a topic that has exercised many famous philosophers, so don't knock it. (16)

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Nothing can be so infuriating as being totally engrossed in a
TV program interrupted by an advertisement. (17).

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Advertisement campaigns canceled world wide leave many citizens stupefied and suffering, unable to think for themselves society crumbles. (18)

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Crumbles are desserts, typically made with apple or rhubarb and topped with a mixture of butter, flour and sugar. (19)

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Sugar sweetens. (2)

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Sweetens tea, honey.

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Honey sweetens tea, too (4).

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Too much honey spoils it. (5)

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It may come as a surprise. (6)

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Surprise me with a new Ferrari soon. (7)


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Soon we will begin to see something different. (8)

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Different opinions often lead to slugfests, instead of
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Reconciliation can be difficult after a war, as history shows. (10)

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Shows on streaming networks, like Netflix, sure make theater going obsolete (11).


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Obsolete textbooks, inadvertently used by teachers, can cause examination candidates to fail. (12)

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Fail, with a red "F" was something I used to mark papers frequently.
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Frequently, the temperature in central London is considerably higher than in the suburban areas. (14)

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Areas farther away from cement streets and walkways
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Heat and light from the Sun, together with atmospheric oxygen and water, make earthly life possible. (16)

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Possible life on planets beyond earth, even beyond the galaxy has fascinated
science fiction writers for eons. (17)


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Eons are required for light from distant stars to reach us, but a mere eight minutes for sunlight. (18)

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Sunlight is slowly getting longer and longer each day
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Color photographs are so common these days that it is easy to overlook the artistic potential of black and white. (20)

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White scores! (2)

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Scores mount rapidly. (3)

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Rapidly flow water falls. (4)


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Falls of snow are disruptive. (5)

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Disruptive wrecks unfortunately cause highway havoc (6).


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Havoc can also result from thick fog. (7)

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Fog and catspaws are analogous, according to Sandburg. (8)

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