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• There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object. -- Kea
• GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing.
  These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling....
• Straight, square, great. Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
  -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
• The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind
  o train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others....
• There's nothing very mysterious about you, except that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, or destination.
• Believe me, there's nothing tougher to overcome [than a sense of purpose], even among humans.
  -- McCoy, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3....
• I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting
  a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows....