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• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camu...
• Fools have been and always will be the majority of mankind.
• There is considerable evidence that great empires and civilizations have been undone not by barbarian invaders but by climatic change.
  -- 1977 CIA repo...
• The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools.
• We've got everyone convinced except the people who have to make the decision.
• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
  -- Sir Walter Sco...
• As leader, you should never forget those who are loyal to you.
  You should hold parties for them regularly and have lots of whiskey (free) for them....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Youth and Art, xvii...