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  1. No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction ... governments, whatever their prete…

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  2. No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating t…

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  3. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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