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• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
  -- Lionel Trilling...
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects....
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects....
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant.
  Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse....