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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529...
• It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 1...
• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -- J. K. Galbraith
• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and trap
  here are always failures of love, of will, of imagination....
• There are two was to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything.
  Both ways save us from thinking. -- Alfred Korzybski...
• Kirk: "He won't break off now. He followed me this far, he'll be back.
  But from *where*?" Spock: "He's intelligent, but not experienced....
• Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Danger! Danger! Danger!
• Kirk: "Gentlemen, I have seen what the Klingons do to planets like yours.
  They are organized into vast slave labor camps. No freedoms whatsoever....
• There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.