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• When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or four years ago, he is a broad-minded man who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions.
  When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. -- Franklin Adam...
• When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite righ
  he generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness....
• Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• The man who raises his voice first has lost the argument.
• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
  Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903)...