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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, February 1755...
• And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
  For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings....
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves.
  We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds ....
• Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate state or the Nation state?
  In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state. -- Jay Terpstra...
• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity.
  To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion....
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• We can make majors and officers every year, but not schola
  kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed....
• It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature.
  Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts and minds....