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• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing...
• To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
  -- Anaximene...
• Picard: "I'd been sent to make preliminary overtures for a truce.
  And I had lowered my shields as a gesture of goodwill....
• When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Thumb the Great, Act i, Sc. 3...
• Homer: Dad, how come you never gave me any encouragement?
  Maybe I could have been something more than I am....