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• Normally our rules are rigid; we tend to discretion, if for no other reason than self-protection.
  We never recommend any of our graduates, although we cheerfully provide information as to those who have failed their courses....
• I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
  -- Massad Ayoob, 'The Truth About Self Protection'...
• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much
  it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little....
• Although our information is incorrect, we do not vouch for it. -- Satie
• We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves.
  Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon - this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing....
• we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in i
  he question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past....
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects....
• It is well to know something of the manners of various people
  in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think....