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• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
  -- Carl Schurz...
• Sounds travel slowly. Sometimes the things you say to your kids don't reach them till they're in their 40s.
• Keep your hands open, and all of the sands of the universe pass through them.
  Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit. -- Taisen Deshimaru...
• Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there.
  What you choose to do with them is up to you. -- Messiah's Handbook...
• Children are like cats, they can tell when you don't like them.
  That's when they come over and violate your body space....
• May you be fruitful and multiply so that your generations are as plentiful as the stars in the sky, and may you have to house, feed, and clothe them all.
• Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
  -- Pope...
• If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerve
  and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day....
• Friends, n: People who borrow your books and set wet glasses on them.
  People who know you well, but like you anyway....