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• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxv...
• Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be
  or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be...
• The Value, or <> of a man, is as of all other things, his price
  that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power....
• If man does his best what else is there? -- George S. Patton (1885-1945)
• In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff [head of RCA] made this stateme
  We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them....
• When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
  What would you have, O man? -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxi...
• The following ties in nicely with another thread (What is music?
  ) All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it....
• We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced.
  It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. -- Albert Schweitze...