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• How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
  Still to ourselves in every place ensigned Our own felicity we make or find. -- Samuel Johnso...
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 7 April 1775...
• We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
• Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know that?
• Is knowledge knowable, and how do we know?
• Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
  -- Marcel Proust, Maxim...
• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T. S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock...
• None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore
  it is a deep where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall ever lose the door....