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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
  Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance....
• Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. -- Charles Caleb Colto
• When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage. Jewish Proverb
• What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face
  and that is the child you once were, long before formal education ever got its claws into you -- that impatient, all-demanding child who wants love and power and can't get enough of either and who goes on raging and weeping in your spirit till at last your eyes are closed and all the fools say, "Doesn't he look peaceful?...
• I therefore come before you armed with the delusions of adequacy with which so many of us equip ourselves.
  -- Air Vice-Marshall A.D. Butto...
• Richard, in being so fierce toward my vampire, you were doing what you wanted to do, even though you thought it was going to hurt somebody else.
  He even told you he'd be hurt if..." "He was going to suck my blood!...
• Life to you is a series of dashing and adventurous crises.
• Kent: And, like Icarus, the rocket foolishly soared too high, and lost control of its servo guidance mechanism, leaving us with some.
  ..[checks watch] six hours to live. So, let's go live now to the charred remains of the only bridge out of town with Arnie Pie and Arnie in the Sky!...
• Homer: So anywho, last night we're playing poker, right?
  As usual, I'm winning and not realizing it, and Lenny says that I'm, er -- [laughs] -- get this -- [laughs] -- a little slow!...