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• Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
  -- John Galt, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• I am, therefore I'll think. -- John Galt (Ayn Rand)
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
  Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction....
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he will.
  -- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• Albert: You listen to _me_! While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is I am a nay-sayer and a hatchet man in the fight against violence!
  I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King!...
• But say my verses do not scan, And I get me another man!
• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• Man's ego is the fountainhead of the human achievement. -- Ayn Rand
• Oh come on Edmund, you _must_ be able to think of another best man.
  .. ...Well, I suppose I _could_ ask Percy...Percy? (excited) My lord?...