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• A Moment's Halt--a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-- And, Lo!
  he phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• Skinner: [to Lisa] The Grand Exulted Leader requests a moment of your time.
  [claps hands] Class dismissed! Children: Yay! Hoove...
• A momentary moment of slackness...
• Haste makes waste
• 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....
• You will curse the day you did not do All that the Phantom asked of you!
  -- I think this is from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (the musical)...
• After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from Heaven.
  As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon to be created....