QUOTATIONS worth pondering:

  1. "Nobody doubts that Daniel Webster could make a good speech....…But this is not a question of ingenuity, not a question of syllogisms, but of sides."
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Fugitive Slave Law"

  2. The mind has its own skin.
    --Sid Gershgoren (in Spirit Horse--An Irregular Magazine of Poetry, Fall '98, no. 2)

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