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• He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise.
• Many a man who thinks he's going on a maiden voyage with a woman finds out later that it was just a shake-down cruise.
• What do I consider a reasonable person to be? I'd say a reasonable person is one who accepts that we are all human and therefore fallible, and takes that into account when dealing with others.
  Implicit in this definition is the belief that it is the right and the responsibility of each person to live his or her own life as he or she sees fit, to respect this right in others, and to demand the assumption of this responsibility by others....
• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
  The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them....
• He who re-invents the wheel, will understand much better how a wheel works.
  He who re-invents the wheel, may actually invent a much better wheel....