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• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. -- William Jame
• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
  -- William Jame...
• And smooth as monumental alabaster. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act v, Sc. 2
• Turn up the lights--I don't want to go home in the dark.
  -- O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], 5 June 1910...
• As soon as you are willing to discard observational data because it conflicts with religion, you are giving up any hope of ever really understanding the universe.
  As soon as you pick religion as the touchstone of reality, then we have to start discussing how one can demonstrate the correctness of one religion over another when different *religions* disagree....
• History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. -- James Joyce
• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry Jame
• Egotism is a case of mistaken nonentity.