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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Whatever natural right men have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
  -- Grenville...
• Most of us can do more than we think we can, but usually do less than we think we have.
• What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
  -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• Most men take only 2-3 minutes to relieve themselves. Women's Restrooms always have long lines.
• There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselve
  but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow....
• Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build
  They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard....
• The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of those that should carry them out.
  Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. -- Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage...
• Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please.
  . . never desire more of it than they already have. -- Rene Descarte...