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• He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
  -- Robert Hall (1764-1831) -- Gregory's Life of Hall...
• Every man has his price. Every price has its man.
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
• Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.
  -- Philip Lubi...
• The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward
  everything presses on toward Eternity; from the birth of Time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean....