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  Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul....
• The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
• Quote #646 in the design of sophisticated digital system
  elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a matter of life and death, being a major factor that decides between success and failure....
• She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people.
  At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise....
• he sea squirt, when young, seeks a rock to which it can anchor itself.
  Once it finds a rock, it will stay there the rest of its life....
• in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being .
  .. The machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed....
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
  -- Charles Kingsley...
• Shallowness is a luxury, perhaps the ultimate luxury.
• Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
  ... -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908- ) -- [Refers to the Council of Nicea which made women "human" by *one* vote!...