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• Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
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• To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 192...
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  only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing....
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• In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
  -- Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book IX, 571d...
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• Inconstitencies of opinion which may arise from time to time due to contingencies which may not be anticipated are often justifiable except when you do them
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• I therefore come before you armed with the delusions of adequacy with which so many of us equip ourselves.
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