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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearance
  but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession....
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
  Alexis Carrel...
• There were but little work left for preaching, if law and compulsion should grow so fast upon those things which hithertofore were governed only by exhortation.
  -- John Milto...
• We have left undone those things which we ought to have done
  and we have done those things which we ought not to have done....
• All those things which are now held to be of the greatest antiquity, were at one time new
  and what we today hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent. -- Tacitu...
• One of those things which is so simple that even a child can operate it is a parent.
• Now all those things that were important, Mister they vanish in the dirt.
• The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
  -- Edmund B. Chafee...