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• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme.
  This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed....
• Two things most people can't stand are to lose 25 pounds and have no one notice or comment, or to have a tropical suntan and have no one even so much as mention it.
• Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.
• If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
  If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop....
• Most people - one may say the best sort of people - greatly prefer to do things for themselves, however badly, than to have things done for them, however well.
  -- Anon....
• It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it.
  That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom...
• Anybody abuse rental cars? If I'm really bored I'll take one to Earl Scheib and have it painted for $
  29.95. This really messes up their paperwork for months and months....
• Most rumors are just as misleading as this one.