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• Self-righteousness is a leading cause of blindness.
• A "pacifist" is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described pacifists are not pacific
  hey simply assume false colors. When the wind changes they hoist the Jolly Roger....
• Insight is often mistaken for madness. -- Sir George Hutchinson, THE AWAKENING
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• Gun control, the opiate of the intellectuals: elitism laced with self-righteousness.
• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
  To attack the first is not to assail the last. -- Charlotte Bronte...
• The breath of the man who loves and the woman who loves goes to fill the water trough where the spirit horses drink.
  -- Robert Bly...
• Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...
• We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -- Time, September 12, 1960.