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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
  -- Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk...
• Many are called, but few are at their desks.
• Many are called, few volunteer.
• Many are educated...few are learned.
• Many are cold, but few are frozen.
• The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war.
  .. The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature...
• Cryonics: many are culled, few are frozen!