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• Must we force ourselves to forget the anguish and the wounds of the past so we can look to the future and move forward?
  And by forgetting these wounds let them fester in our souls? -- Ba Ji...
• We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves.
  Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon - this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing....
• A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the kind of insoluble problems as man.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• We cannot forgive, because that means forgetting also.
  If we forget, then we're doomed, because the past will creep back to poison our future....
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of Viva-Tech, a manufacturer of high-tech medical equipment.
  "In order to reduce costs, we should close some of our existing small assembly plants and build a large central plant....
• we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in i
  he question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past....
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence
  hen we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy-- *sic transit gloria mundi*....