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• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in tha
  for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct....
• Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it.
  Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man....
• If you wish to know what a man is - give him skates, a stick, & a puck.
• If you give a man enough rope, he'll claim he's tied up at the office.
• Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him to program computers and you give him the power to create headaches for others for the rest of his life.
  .. -- R. B. Fore...
• Give a man a fire and you keep him warm for a night.
  Set him on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life....
• You may be redneck... if the Orkin man tells you, "Give up; you've lost.
• You cannot give away kindness, it always comes back to you.
• The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr.
  Teller is that the *time* it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong until he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!...