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CXIII



Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;

And that which governs me to go about

Doth part his function and is partly blind,

Seems seeing, but effectually is out;

For it no form delivers to the heart

Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:

Of his quick objects hath the mind no part, 

Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;

For if it see the rud\'st or gentlest sight,

The most sweet favour or deformed\'st creature,

The mountain or the sea, the day or night:

The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.

  Incapable of more, replete with you,

  My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.

 	--William Shakespeare

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one
end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. --Albert Einstein