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• College students.and people in general.prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
  Therefore, colleges should eliminate as many choices as possible in order to offer students clear direction....
• Major policy decisions should always be left to politicians and other government experts, who are more informed and thus have better judgment and perspective than do members of the general public.
• If people were required to know the law rather than to obey it, the government would be overthrown the next day.
• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch
  han that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow....
• Government should spend our money like it was their own.
• A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
  What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?...
• Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
  -- William F. Buckley, Jr....
• People would rather watch things than eat.