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• There is no purgatory but a woman. -- Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher (1614)
• Business is like oil, it won't mix with anything but business.
• As cold as cucumbers. -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Cupid's Revenge, Act i, Sc. 1
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
• Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now.
  Because of this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid....
• 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....
• We compound our suffering by victimising each other. -- Athol Fugard, in "The Observer", 1971
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...