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• We invent what we love, and what we fear. -- John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
• You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. -- John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
• The great merit of society is to make one appreciate solitude.
  -- Charles Chincholles, "Reflections on the Art of Life...
• You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money, after much hard work, as usual.
• Like corn in a field I cut you down, I threw the last punch way too hard, After years of going steady, well, I thought it was time, To throw in my hand for a new set of cards.
  And I can't take you dancing out on the weekend, I figured we'd painted too much of this town, And I tried not to look as I walked to my wagon, And I knew then I had lost what should have been found, I knew then I had lost what should have been found....
• When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death
  My life has been one great big joke, Sixty years in these folks' world A dance that's walked The child I works for calls me girl A song that's spoke, I say "Yes ma'am" for working's sake....
• The best investment you can make is hard work.
• The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
  -- Bill Vaugha...