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• All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
  All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....
• All those things which are now held to be of the greatest antiquity, were at one time new
  and what we today hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent. -- Tacitu...
• Picard: "Mister LaForge...I would like *you* to accompany Captain Scott.
  LaForge: "Me, sir." Picard: "Yes. Look, this is not an order....
• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
  If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. -- Edward O. Wilso...
• Develop no anxiety concerning those things which are not yet, nor those things which were but are no longer.
• It seems easy to understand those who long for things as they were.
  You used to get a free sandwich with a dime beer....
• Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity.
  It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die....
• In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
  Alexis Carrel...
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. EISENHOWER