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• What has posterity ever done for me?
• What's made Milwaukee famous has made a fool out of me.
• But the pain remained -- and a helpless wonder. The thing he saw was so much more real than the reality of paper, office and commission.
  He could not understand what made others blind to it, and what made their indifference possible....
• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. -- Horace
• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• What was the worst thing you've ever done?" "I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me.
  .. the most dreadful thing." -- Peter Straub, "Ghost Story...
• Reality is relative, but Relativity is real.
• The real trouble with telling a fairly decent story which will make people laugh is that someone in the group of listeners will be reminded of another story which will completely undo what has just been done.
• A real lady never asks, "was *what* good for me?