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• For specialization is a process that begins as an attempt to develop experts who will then inform the whole body.
  It can end, however, and sometimes does, in the removal of any inclination to question the supposed "experts"- who themselves are sometimes not all that expert....
• For nations that waste their inheritances- even nations that are profligate -usually do so in ways more subtle than individuals.
  Bad habits and bad advice take longer to inflict their damage...
• A Democratic nation, at least when organized to secure the political rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, can be a large and populous nation.
  -- Michael Scully...
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....
• Innovations in law, whether good or bad, spin an entangling weave far more often than they sew a straight stitch.
  Division of labor can make for great efficiency; too great a division of labor in lawmaking can instead create a crazy quilt....
• The greatness of kings is made at the margin; the greatness of legislatures, at the mean.
  That is to say, a monarch is judged by individual virtues and performance, but no legislature can be called great because it contained one or a few impressive individuals, to whom it paid no heed....
• I'm not so much human as cat furniture.
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Mulder: Wait a minute, Scully. What's the point of this test?
  Scully: No point. I just thought he could stand to lose a little weight....