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• I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• Let's all face the facts. This world in which many if not most of us live will never be a better place until such time as it is occupied by a better class of tenents.
• It is only through labor and effort, by energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
  -- Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. Preside...
• Homer: Hey! I never noticed _this_ place. Bart: Dad, it's right across the street from us!
  That fancy house'll never sell. Nobody who could afford it would want to live in _this_ neighborhood....
• Lord, when we are wrong, make us easy to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.
  -- Peter Marshall...
• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner [.
  ..] on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies....
• Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it.
  -- Artemus Ward...
• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. -- Theodore Roosevel
• More than at any other time in all the history of humanity, we are at a crossroads, a place which demands of us a sincere and wise decision.
  A turn to the left at this time would certainly cause widespread despair and perhaps even confrontative reactions by the multitudes....