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• No one can put you down without your full cooperation.
• Anonymous Noncoward writes, "For my Economics 101 class, I have to pretend to be Bill Gates and write an editorial defending Microsoft against anti-trust charges, citing economic principles.
  To complete such an assignment violates every moral fiber of my body....
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• In most societies, competition generally has more of a negative than a positive effect.
• Self-respect . . . is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price.
• Did you hear about the Army noncom who had stripes tattooed on his penis so he could pull rank.
• A novel approach is to remove all power from the system, which removes most system overhead so that resources can be fully devoted to doing nothing.
  Benchmarks on this technique are promising; tremendous amounts of nothing can be produced in this manner....