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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
  -- Samuel Stiles, 19th Century English write...
• People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
• People all wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
• People will go to the most incredible lengths to make fools of themselves. -- Solomon Sho
• Make other people like themselves a little better and rest assured they'll like you very much.
• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
• Idle hands are the devils playthings.... busy hands will make you go blind.
• Standards committees are not the best ways to create a standard.
  Standards meetings and standards themselves are horribly political things....