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• The only time we doctors should accept death is when it comes as a result of our own incompetence.
  -- Dr. Hfuhruhu...
• We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
  Robert Louis Stevenso...
• One can never repeat too often, that reason, as it exists in man, is only our intellectual eye, and that, like the eye, to see, it needs light-to see clearly and far, it needs the light of heaven.
• It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures.
  We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves....
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....
• No atheist, as such, can be a true friend, an affectionate relation, or a loyal subject.
  -- Dr. Bentley...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....