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• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery
  do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant?...
• We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you
  but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again....
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• We all want our friends to tell us our bad qualitie
  it is only the particular ass that does so that we can't tolerate. -- William Jame...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• Men are used as they use others. -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The King who became Just, Chap.
  ii, Fable ix...
• ALIEN INVASION IMMINENT It now known that an alien species has been watching this planet for several years now.
  They have sent their scouts ahead, who have infiltrated much of the civilised world....