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• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• The measure of man is what he does with power. -- Pittacu
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain.
  What it {can} do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them....
• It has been justly observed by sages of all lands that although a man may be most happily married and continue in that state with the utmost contentme
  it does not necessarily follow that he has therefore been struck stone-blind. -- H. Warner Mu...
• A man can lose his soul among the stars. Much later, he may realize that his body acted for him, guiding his ship while his mind traveled in realms he cannot remember.
  They call it _the far look._ It is dangerous. A man's soul does not always return....
• When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
  -- Kahlil Gibra...