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• There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.
  -- James Boswell...
• May you have nightmares each night and may you awaken each time to find yourself in another nightmare.
• I call that a scumhead. -- James Joyce -- Finnegans Wake
• We learn from history that we do not learn from history. HEGEL
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• Always see a fellow's weak point in his wife. -- James Joyce
• We learn from history that we do not learn from history. Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel