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• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
• The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
  -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) _Conduct of Life_ `Worship'...
• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
  And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true....
• The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friend
  and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us....
• The only time we doctors should accept death is when it comes as a result of our own incompetence.
  -- Dr. Hfuhruhu...
• I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. viii...
• As a result of the last Presidential election it has come to our attention that anyone can succeed if they learn to have no ideas and a tremendous ability toward precise articulation of these.
• The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time.
  It is, rather, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. -- Eric Hoffe...