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@@ -42213,6 +42213,24 @@ Roger Babson's Ten Commandments of Investing
 + Buy adequate security, not super abundance.
 + Choose your dealer and buy outright (i.e., don't buy on margin.)
 ~
-Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
-  -- Mark Twain
+Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.  -- Mark Twain
+~
+All of us cherish helpful and loving friends, and wise, compassionate
+spiritual mentors are especially important to us to progress on the path.
+Being separated from the people we value or having an important relationship
+not work out the way we had hoped is painful, yet it is a common occurrence in
+cyclic existence.  Because we ourselves, others, and all the conditioned
+things around us are impermanent by nature, whatever comes together must also
+separate.
+  -- Thubten Chodron, "Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and
+     Avoid the Causes of Suffering", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+There are no limits to our imagination,
+or if there are,
+we can only imagine them.
+  -- Fred T. Hamster
+~
+When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say
+to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
+  -- Fred Rogers