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• We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.)
• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity.
  But this means we then give away our power to that entity. -- M. Scott Peck...
• What we frankly give, forever is our own. -- George Granville
• Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- How to profit by our Enemie...
• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• We give nothing as willingly as our advice.
• Appearances often are deceiving. -- Aesop
• If time is money, we are all living beyond our means.
• We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.