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• The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
• MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.
  The chief temple is in the holy city of New York....
• During the invasion of Sicily in World War II, General George ("Blood 'n' Guts") Patton was preparing to take the city of Palermo.
  He checked with his meteorologists and learned the day he had chosen would be incredibly rainy....
• what's the point of ... new technology if you can't find some way to pervert it?
  -- G. A. Effinger, Marid Changes His Mind, IASFM, 1/90...
• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
  -- George Santayana (1863-1952)...
• Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. -- South
• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil
  Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon....
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639...
• A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
  -- New Testament -- Matthew xiii, 57...