Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer AA

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
-- Clare Booth Luce AA

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson AA

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx AA