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• Nature gave man two ends-one to sit on and one to think with.
  Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most....
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
  There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent....
• No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
  -- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand...
• 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....
• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• How can I ever thank you?" gushed a woman to Clarence Darrow, after he had solved her legal troubles.
  "My dear woman," Darrow replied, "ever since the Phoenicians invented money there has been only one answer to that question....
• FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
  #4 Weddings: When reminiscing about weddings, women talk about "the ceremony"....
• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do
  ince, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand....
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." he might not have one.