O'Brian, Patrick. The Surgeon's Mate

Stephen Maturin to Captain Jack Aubrey: "... as one of your great men of the past age observed, it is so far from natural for a man and a woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together."

Jack Aubrey to himself: Monogamy seems the only solution, alas, although in a way it is as absurd as monarchy...

O'Shaughnessy, Arthur

We are the music-makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams,
wandering by lone sea breakers,
and sitting by desolate streams;
world-losers and world-forsakers
on whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world forever, it seems.

Ostergaard, Paul

One of the inherent hypocrisies in today's culture is that society demands that our athletes push themselves to new and greater levels of achievement, while society places decreasing demands on our students. It is my observation that the less you demand of people, the less you receive.

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