WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1996 “There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.” --John Ruskin (1819-1900) English writer, social reformer“Nothing endures but personal qualities.” --Walt Whitman (1819-1892) U.S. poet “Every noble work is at first impossible.” --Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British writer “It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” --James Madison (1751-1836) U.S. president “The best way to defeat an enemy is to defeat his strategy. The best way to defeat his strategy is to adopt it.” --Sun Tzu (c. 500 B.C.) Chinese military strategist
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