understood what our true personal dignity is, we should at once spring to our feet and change our very hearts and minds. We should have compassion on the sick and poor. We should be merciful, honest and patient.” HAL BORLAND –“Any river is really the summation of the whole valley To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.” HAL BORLAND –“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” HAL-9000 –“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.” HALABELSON –“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.” HALFORD LUCCOCK –“An aggressive businessman told his doctor he was stressed with work. “I take my briefcase home every night and it’s packed with work,” he said with nervous inflection. “Cannot someone else do it or help you with it?” asked the doctor. “No”, the man snapped, “I am only one who can do it as it must be done, and it has to be done quickly”. The doctor’s prescription was: The patient was to take off two hours every working day and go for a long walk. He was to take off a half-day a week and spend that half-day in a cemetery In astonishment, the patient demanded, “Why should i spend a half-day in a cemetery?” “Because”, answered the doctor, “I want you to wander around and look at the gravestones of men who are there permanently I want you to meditate upon the fact that many of them are there because they thought even as you do, that the whole world rested on
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