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• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  -- Don Marqui...
• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friend
  and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us....
• Go through, my children! The time of miracles is upon us.
  Let us cast off sin and walk together to the Garden of the Lord....
• The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit....
• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit....
• Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! -- Derwood Finche