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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. -- Ayn Rand
• Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.
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• Welcome to the future for it will soon be the past.
  Respect the past, for it was once all that was humanly possible....
• Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half-remembered glory.
  -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) "America and Americans" (1966)...
• Poetry has been to me "its own exceeding great reward
  it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyme...
• The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity.
  The rest is overhead for the operating system....
• The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
  - H. P. Lovecraf...