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• You've got to throw the stone to get the pool to ripple.
• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash.
  -- Norman Maclean -- A River Runs Through I...
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary.
  They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• No, no! Not Ripple...SNAPPLE!
• Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the most time annihilates reason and leaves our whole organization one lacerated
  mangled heart- is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love....
• BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age
  ex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion....
• She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Dream, Stanza 2...