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• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Many writers are bad at being promiscuous with women, from the certainty of knowing how the affair will end before it has even begun.
  -- Andrew Sinclair, "No Man More Magical...
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
  -- Chang-tzu...
• I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
  -- Chuang-tzu...
• One of the Greek lady gods got a crush on one of the Greek man gods.
  He tried to hit her with lightning and thunderbolts, but he just couldn't get her away from him ....
• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  "I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• I've downloaded coj.zip, then used unzip to unpack it > but I wasn't able to run it My dearest not soon to be extinct dodo, You have sent one question to the list, asking WHERE to find coj.
  This question would have been answered to your full satisfaction had you bothered to conduct the simplest web search....
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....