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• I think he's playing his oboe with just one reed.
• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.
  The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret....
• A bending reed does not break. -- Confuciu
• A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
  -- Old Testament -- Isaiah xlii, 3...
• Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
  -- Thomas B. Reed...
• Things are better in their beginnings. -- Blaise Pascal
• I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
  -- Blaise Pascal...
• microReid /mi:'kroh-reed/ n. See microLenat.