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The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad. (Salvador Dali)

If a man does his best, what else is there? (General George S. Patton)

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)