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    THOUGHTS TO PONDER


    This above all: to thine own self be true," -Wm. Shakespeare

    Wisdom: A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James


    The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

    If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. -- Carl Sagan

    The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. -- Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

    Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. -- Victor Hugo

    Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. -- Machiavelli

    What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. -- Timothy Virkkala

    Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. -- Richard Feynman

    Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. -- Ambrose Redmoon

    Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. -- Confucious

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