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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.
  ' Carl Jung...
• There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune
  it is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great thing...
• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile-and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts togethe
  ot necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely....
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows up to othe
  but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it....
• Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess.
  -- Gandalf the Grey...
• In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead
  he one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence....
• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
  Abigail Adams (1744-1818)...