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• What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
  -- Edgar Z. Friedenberg...
• Apu: There she is: the world's first convenience store!
  [points to store on top of mountain] Home...
• It doesn't seem that long ago that just a few things cost more than a dollar a gallon, including imported whiskey and some rather exotic perfume.
• Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
  -- Jean de LaBruyere...
• People would rather watch things than eat.
• How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux?
  By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream change, and calls them things....
• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube There are some things one would rather have done than do.
  -- Edward Abbey...