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• The measure of man is what he does with power. -- Pittacu
• If you want to know what is actually occurring inside, underneath, at the center, at any given moment, art is a truer guide than 'politics,' more often than not.
  --Percy Wyndham Lewis, _Time and the Western Man_...
• If a man runs after money - that man is money-crazy.
  If a man keeps the money he earns - he is a capitalist....
• Whoever preserves a single thought uncorrupted by any concession to the will of othe
  whoever brings into reality a matchstick or a patch of garden made in the image of his thought -- he, and to that extent, is a man, and that extent is the sole measure of his virtue....
• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay...
• The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. -- Lamb
• What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
• A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
  -- Haliburto...
• Contentment produces in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone
  and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them....