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• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard.
  We hire a man, not his history. -- Henry Ford...
• A lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lie
  making that person one's master, condemned from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked ....
• All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through i
  a point of view. -- Peter Conrad, from the _Guardian_ (UK newspaper)...
• Principal Skinner: Mr. Burns, what is the secret to your success?
  Mr. Burns: Family, religion, loyalty... these are the demons you must slay if you want to be successful....
• What they said: What they meant: "You will be fortunate if you can get him to work for you.
  (We certainly never succeeded.) There is no other employee with whom I can adequately compare him....
• Any fully matured science of ecology will have to grapple with the fact that from the ecological point of view
  man is one of those animals which is in danger from its too successful participation in the struggle for existence....
• Homer: Mom, I'm sorry I never come to see you. I'm just not a cemetery person.
  Here lies" -- Walt Whitman?! Aargh!...
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view.