>>Things are either dead or alive.
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>It's a matter of definitions.
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>In my 4th grade science class I was tought that a rock is a non-living thing.
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>It is neither alive, nor dead.
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>Biology, as a system of definitions, is subject to change, of course, but I don't recall the consensus being that a rock is dead.
It always annoys me that expression: "This mighty structure was hewn from the living rock"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
