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• We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves.
  Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon - this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing....
• As a math atheist, I should be excused from this. -- Calvi
• PLAYGIRL, Inc. Philadelphia, Pa. 19369 Dear Si
  Your name has been submitted to us with your photo....
• Without the faculty of forgetting our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E. M. Forste
• It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill, or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing.
  It dehumanizes those who achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom good old common sense has not been obliterated by mere book learning or fancy notions....
• The following appeared in a memorandum from the new president of the Patriot car manufacturing company.
  "In the past, the body styles of Patriot cars have been old-fashioned, and our cars have not sold as well as have our competitors' cars....
• It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...