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• What seems to be no test, no struggle, is the most deceiving test of all. -- Ezra Taft Benso
• Well, we must face a new reality. No more carefree days of chasing squirrels, running through the park, or howling at the moon.
  On the other hand, no more `Fetch the stick, boy, fetch the stick....
• Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
  Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end....
• We chased our pleasures here, dug out treasures there.
  Can you still recall the time we cried? Break on through to the other side. -- The Doo...
• Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
  -- Paul Valery...
• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
  They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
  -- Maurice Maeterlinck...
• More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads.
  One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction....