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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
  -- John Tillotso...
• Speak the word, the word is all of us.
• The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. -- Voltaire
• Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
  Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still....
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
• Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
  (Maxim 180)...
• Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.