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• Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure -- Act i, Sc. 4...
• Win or lose, you lose.
• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
• It could always be worse: It might be _my_ problem!
• I don't like talking to philosophers. I'm always worried that they might be laughing behind my back because they know I don't exist.
• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns.
  Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. -- James Earl Jone...
• Live simply, that others might simply live. -- Elizabeth Seato
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
  That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together.
  They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life....