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• Never look at the brass ... it only encourages them. -- Richard Strau
• When grasping at straws, any straw will do.
• The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
  -- Claude Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques", 1955...
• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
• Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
  -- Walter Lippma...