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• I treasure this strange combination found in very few perso
  a fierce desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of the quest....
• He gives us the very quintessence of perception,--the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Coleridge...
• Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge.
  Probably tertiary. -- Edward Abbey...
• Leela: Hold Still, I don't have good depth perception!
• Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Fau...
• Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.