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• XXI: It's easy to get a loan unless you need it. XXII
  If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice....
• In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff [head of RCA] made this stateme
  We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them....
• That truth cannot be material in any respect, is contrary to the nature of things.
  No tribunal, no codes, no systems can repeal or impair this law of God, for by his eternal laws it is inherent in the nature of things ....
• You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
  A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with alot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
  -- New Testament -- John i, 9...
• Man's rich with little, were his judgment true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few
  These few wants, answer'd bring sincere delights; But fools create themselves new appetites....
• Minds of the strongest and most active powers fall below mediocrity and labor without effect, if confined to uncongenial pursuits.
  And it is thence to be inferred, that the results of human exertion may be immensely increased by diversifying its objects....
• The following appeared in a newsletter from a political organization.
  "In order to promote economic growth in the city, city residents should vote 'yes' on the state government's proposal to build a new expressway linking the outlying suburbs directly to the city center....