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• To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. viii, Of the Affections of Fathe...
• Money confers the power to command the labor of others.
  Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil. -- Edward Abbey...
• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experience
  beyond this they have not legitimacy. -- Einstein....
• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours.
  The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. -- Nietzsche...
• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experience
  beyond this they have not legitimacy. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• There's certainly a growing atmosphere of academic totalitarianism.
  It shows up in things like the attacks on the legitimacy of the more eclectic and interdisciplinary fields, or in the increasing constraints on student choice....
• Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. -- Emersons' Law of Contrarine...
• Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....
• Emerson's Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
  Having found them, we shall then hate them for it....