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• Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• The most advantageous, pre-eminent thing thou canst do is not to exhibit nor display thyself within the limits of our galaxy
  but rather depart instantaneously whence thou even now standest and flee to yet another rotten planet in the universe, if thou canst have the good fortune to find one....
• People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
  -- George Bush...
• If all the world's managers were laid end to end, it would be an improvement.
• If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
• There are currently two views about intelligent life on other planets in our universe.
  One says that if the folks on other planets are really intelligent, they would prefer not having a single thing to do with us....
• If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.
  -- AMAZING BUT TRUE......
• AMAZING BUT TRUE ... If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.