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• A retired dentist who loves to fish. "Open wide," he mutters to the unseen fish as he waits for a tug on the line.
  Now bite down. This may sting just a little bit....
• Those whose hope is weak settle down for comfort or for violence
  hose whose hope is strong see and cherish all signs of new life and are ready at every moment to help the birth of that which is ready to be born....
• Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity.
  It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die....
• 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....
• 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...
• There are those that are born to be on top and those that are born to be on bottom.
  Like officers and soldiers. -- Sergeant Traub...
• The only ones who have a right to live are those not yet born. -- Yossarian, Rio Bisbee Band
• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme.
  This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed....
• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
  -- Ovid (43 B.C.- A.D. 17) born on Mar 20, Roman poe...