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• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
  Thomas Paine...
• We have left undone those things which we ought to have done
  and we have done those things which we ought not to have done....
• One day posterity will remember This strange era, these strange times, when Ordinary common honesty was called courage.
  -- Yevheny Yevtushenko (1933- ) Saturday Review, 8 Nov. 1969...