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• Every man who possesses power is impelled to abuse it. -- Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• So slow he has to speed up to stop.
• Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
  -- J.M. Barrie...
• Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
  -- Barrie...
• A man cannot speak but he judges himself...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
  -- Emerso...
• Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
  -- Montesquieu...
• You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with alot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it....
• Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look at what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?
  -- Richard Feyman's fathe...