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• We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied
  We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died....
• Kirk: "We haven't fired." Spock: "Captain...according to our databanks we have.
  ..twice." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,-- Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Building of the Ship...
• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Conno
• Shit Happens' according to... Beurocrat: I'm sorry
  but we can't do this shit until you fill out form XJ-314159 to make an appointment with our Assistant Sub-Deputy Manager to obtain form ZN-271828....
• Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...