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• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. -- Edward Abbey
• On 'the totally suffering individual' (i.e. no food, no oxygen, no water, no self-esteem, no safety, no friends, no money, sick and in pain, etc.
  ) "You can't do this with people, which takes all the fun out of life....
• Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Demosthene...
• Don't worry about attainment. Anything you can add is unnecessary.
  Buddha didn't walk the earth so that we would study Buddhism....
• Optimization is not free. Gratuitous optimization can be translated directly >into missing features or later release dates.
  -- Peter da Silva, peter@ficc.ferranti.com ...and more bugs....
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
  -- Woody Alle...
• The Way! The Truth! and The Life!
• Life is difficult. -- M. Scott Peck
• All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.