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I clipped this out from a magazine a few years ago and keep it on my
bulletin board at all times.  I thought I would share it with you here.

	"Life is, in fact, a battle ... Evil is insolent and
	strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt
	to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to
	carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people
	of sense in small, and mankind generally, unhappy.  But
	the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no
	evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again and again
	for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it
	nor dispense with it."

				- Henry James


For such a pessimistic sounding statement, I find great hope in it.  For this
is the world.  It is reality.  And pretending it doesn't exist won't make
it go away.