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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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  -- Harry V. Jaffa...
• I seek information about the Wise Woman. ...The Wise Woman!
  ...The Wise Woman!... ...Yes, the Wise Woman. -- Edmund and crone : Bell...
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  -- Jeff Snyde...
• As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
  -- John Adam...