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• 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?...
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts.
  -- Patrick Moyniha...
• We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Aesop
• Having lost all sense of direction, we doubled our pace!
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....
• We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our ow
  disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning....
• COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...