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• 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....
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
• If you hit a man over the head with a fish, he'll have a headache for a day.
  But if you teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish, he'll have headaches for the rest of his life....
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you get change back.