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  it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -- John Locke...
• Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own. -- Thoreau
• It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error, and another, to put him in possession of truth.
  -- John Locke...
• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
  The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability....
• Mountains standing close together: The image of Keeping Still.
  Thus the superior man Does not permit his thoughts To go beyond his situation....
• We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), (from his Inaugural Address)...
• The discipline of desire is the background of character. -- John Locke
• Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
  -- John Steinbeck, autho...
• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
  His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not....