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• The widespread idea that people should make self-improvement a primary goal in their lives is problematic because it assumes that people are intrinsically deficient.
• The following appeared in a newspaper published in the state of Celera.
  "Speed limits on our state's highways should be eliminated in order to increase our state's prosperity....
• Reasoned decision is important, and there comes a time in every wizard's life when he must decide what goal he should pursue to give true meaning to his life.
  Should it be money, or travel, or fame? And what of leisure and the love of women?...
• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• The following appeared in a memorandum from a vice president of the Megamart department store chain.
  "For the third year in a row, the average household income in our country has risen significantly....
• The following is a letter to the editor of the Glenville Gazette, a local newspaper.
  "Over the past few years, the number of people who have purchased advance tickets for the Glenville Summer Concert series has declined, indicating lack of community support....
• Technology is so technological
• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The more we do, the more we can do...
• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
  -- Aldous Huxley...