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• Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo. [Drops of water hollow out a stone - not by strength, but just falling often.
  ]...
• He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
  -- Lavate...
• We drink and we die and continue to drink... -- Leary
• Our so-called leaders speak; we've heard the full regalia.
  They subjugate the meek, but it's the rhetoric of failure....
• Crew member is called by 1st name - drink!
• This "brain-damaged" epithet is getting sorely overworked.
  When we can speak of someone or something being flawed, impaired, marred, spoiled...
• You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.