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• All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
  -- Aristotle...
• When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said
  "Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone....
• Willy: I'm telling ye, I could nay have shot Burns.
  [uncrosses, then recrosses, his legs; everyone groans] Eddie...
• When a President does it then it is not illegal. -- Richard M.
  Nixon during a CBS TV report, 19 May 1977...
• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands had become extinct.
  Yet humans cannot have been a factor in the species' extinctions, because there is no evidence that the humans had any significant contact with the mammals....