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• The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side is ready to face danger than accept an immediate loss.
  -- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wa...
• There comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face .
  ... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods....
• Nothing is ultimate.
• Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
  -- Sir Walter Raleigh before his beheading...
• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
  -- Sydney J. Harri...
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• My Loss is Your Gain!
• Homer: Where are you two going at this hour? Ba
  On a treasure hunt. Homer: Oh! Can I come? Abe: Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take....
• So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
  (Executed by beheading.) ~~ Sir Walter Raleigh, d. October 29, 1618...