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• Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.
  Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most....
• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.
  There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent....
• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." he might not have one.
• God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak. -- Arab proverb
• A man who has no eyes, sess a tree with apples. He takes no apples He leaves no apples A one-eyed man sees a tree with two apples and takes one.
  (Notice use of plural vs singular)...
• No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
  -- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand...
• Oppression. Success. Perseverance. The great man brings about good fortune.
  No blame. When one has something to say, It is not believed....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....