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@@ -7,9 +7,30 @@ that I've chosen to pick up and carry with me...
 On Life
 -------
 
+<p>
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes... 
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+<br>-- Will I Am</p>
+
+<p>
+"Taste your words before you spit them out."
+<br>-- Andy Card</p>
+
 <p>
 "That which hinders your task is your task."
 
+<p>
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+<br>-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
+<p>
+"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
+<br>-- David Oyelowo
+
+<p>
+"Fast is relative to what you're driving."
+<br>-- Hurley Haywood
+
 <p>
 "I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education 
 other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is 
@@ -156,6 +177,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?"
 intelligent are full of doubt."
 <br>-- Bertrand Russell</p>
 
+<p>
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true 
+whether or not they are well-educated — is that intelligent people can 
+handle subtlety.  They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory 
+situations — in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious 
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+<br>-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age</p>
+
 <p>
 "People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be
 great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this
@@ -303,6 +332,16 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
 <br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
 </p>
 
+<p>
+“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of 
+a witness.” 
+<br>-- Margaret Miller
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+<br>-- Margaret Mead
+
 On Programming
 --------------
 
@@ -314,7 +353,7 @@ to do a complete Debian desktop install!"
 <p>
 "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
 is not worth knowing."
-<br>-- Perlis</p>
+<br>-- Alan Perlis</p>
 
 <p>
 "We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust 
@@ -404,6 +443,11 @@ Things I've Said
 since it's really not clear to me that increasing my breast size would 
 increase my confidence, I didn't bother reading most of it."</p>
 
+<p>
+"The difference between Open Source and Free Software is that Free Software
+people know there's a difference, and Open Source people try to pretend
+there isn't."</p>
+
 Things Said About Me
 --------------------
 
@@ -411,3 +455,4 @@ Things Said About Me
 "I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought, 
 'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"
 <br>--Eric Schwartz</p>
+