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• A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
  -- Ariel Dura...
• We need kind and gracious fellowship from within, instead of judgement and criticism from without.
  Let's communicate constructively....
• Turning to the summit for nourishment, Deviating from the path To seek nourishment from the hill.
  Continuing to do this brings misfortune....
• I come in peace. I only seek alcohol, men, and hockey!
• I come in peace. I only seek alcohol, women, and hockey!
• From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
  -- Herman Melville...
• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camu...
• Work out you own salvation. Do not depend on others. -- Buddha
• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. -- Basho