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• Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. -- Emerso
• Humility is the better part of wisdom, and is most becoming in man.
  But let no one disparage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness....
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• The reliance on vendors is a good thing.
• To-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Self-Reliance...
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
  -- Patricia Sampso...
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• We teach what are called the vigorous virtues -- determination, self-reliance, self-control, and courage.
  This is achieved through the application of mental stress, physical rigor, minute regulation of behavior, pressures, hazards and psychological bonding....
• Banish Evil from the world? Nonsense! Encourage it, foster it, sponsor it.
  The world owes Evil a debt beyond imagination. Think!...