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• When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. French Proverb
• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. -- Menander, 292 BC
• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted to rhetoric.
  If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk, we must act big....
• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model
  And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection....
• Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle
• We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iv, Sc.
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• We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yate