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• People often look for similarities, even between very different things, and even when it is unhelpful or harmful to do so.
  Instead, a thing should be considered on its own term...
• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger. Japanese Proverb
• A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
  -- Henry David Thoreau,_On the Duty of Civil Disobedience_...
• When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. -- Confuciu
• A woman physician has made the statement that smoking is neither physically defective nor morally degrading, and that nicotine, even when indulged to in excess, is less harmful than excessive petting.
  -- Purdue Exponent (Jan 16, 1925)...
• Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne