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• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• 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....
• Amusement to an observing mind is study. -- Benjamin Disraeli
• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy
  for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselve...
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....
• We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us.
  We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors....