We found through testing that links coming from multiple pages of the same site are good, although site wide links are not as good. If your links are contextual it makes a huge difference, and we have found it to be very effective.

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You have said that we should not have two links to the same web page in the same post because that would just be a waste of one link. Is it ok to have two links to the same page in a post as long as the anchor text is different?

Why is having two of the same links in a post "wasting" a link? Are we implying here then that if there is more than one of the same links in a post, the search engines only give you credit for one?