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• There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune
  it is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great thing...
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks.
  Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
  -- Hare...
• I therefore come before you armed with the delusions of adequacy with which so many of us equip ourselves.
  -- Air Vice-Marshall A.D. Butto...
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intentio
  he inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualitie...