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• There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success.
  On the other hand, don't count on it. -- T.K. Lawso...
• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
  Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miserie...
• Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
• I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world.
  One theory leads a man to pull down everyone around him in order to climb on them to a higher place....
• There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. x...
• Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space
  and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air....
• A bird in the hand doesn't count in poker.
• An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
  -- Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered Leadership...
• It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity
  and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color....