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• Appearance *versus* reality? Appearance *is* reality, God damn it! -- Edward Abbey
• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard.
  They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. -- Barrow...
• Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. -- Christopher Lasch
• Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. -- Christopher Lascl
• What is cannot not be. -- Parmenide
• SMACK! SMACK! Oh dear, it appears that reality is on the blink agai
• Reality is that part of imagination we all agree on.
• Strangeness is really reality from a different view.
• There is nothing wrong with Captain Picard or with the ship's logs.
  Therefore, there must be something wrong with your original assumption....