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• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
  -- Charles Darwi...
• Choice is an illusion. In reality, our lives are controlled by the society in which we live.
• Practicality is now our great idol, which all powers and talents must serve.
  Anything that is not obviously practical has little value in today's world....
• Most of our future lies ahead.
• It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, that all adults are unsympathetic, that all politicians are mere opportunists.
  -- George McGove...
• Picard: "We should run a full diagnostic on all command systems.
  Worf: "A 'full diagnostic' would require us to take our systems offline....
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• Our lives have taken an odd turn. -- Lisa comments on Homer's goofy costume as.
  .. "Dancin' Home...
• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
  Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miserie...