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Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak? ’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Reflection shows us that our image of happiness is thoroughly colored by the time to which the course of our existence has assigned us.

—Walter Benjamin, Thesis on the Philosophy of History

Brian (shouting to his followers): Look, you’ve got it all wrong. You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anyone. You’ve got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals.

Followers (shouting back in unison): Yes. We’re all individuals.

Brian: You’re all different.

Followers: Yes. We are all different.

A male follower: I’m not.

Another follower (hushing him): Shh, shh, shh.

—Monty Python, Life of Brian