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• An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
  Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.
  (See _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering....
• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body.
  He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion....
• In the begining, God created the Earth and he said, "Let there be mud.
  And there was mud. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what we have done....
• Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched.
  Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion....
• The one L lama, he's a priest The two L llama, he's a beast And I will bet my silk pyjama There isn't any three L lllama.
  -- O. Nash, to which a fire chief replied that occasionally his department responded to something like a "three L lllama....
• A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married. -- H. L. Mencke