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• One ship drives east and the other drives west With the selfsame winds that blow.
  'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales Which tells us the way to go....
• LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire....
• From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, I, 1, Line 3...
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man....
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw...
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself.
  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man....
• Fear always springs from ignorance.