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People are like stained-glass windows.Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.Auden, W. H.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.Pope, Alexander

Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.Bolingbroke

To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. Bookchin, Murray

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.Buddha

The nail that sticks out must be hammered down. Chinese Proverb

All truth is not to be told at all times.Fuller, Thomas

The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism.Mencken, H.L.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.Irving, Washington