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* Everything should be made as simple as possible, but ''no simpler''. | * Everything should be made as simple as possible, but ''no simpler''. | ||
:Attributed to Albert Einstein (1879–1955), but no source is provided. | :Attributed to Albert Einstein (1879–1955), but no source is provided. | ||
* Anonymous poem, ''What is a Boy?''[sic] (1944) | |||
:He is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. | |||
:He is to sit right where you are sitting and attend when you are gone to those things you think are so important. | |||
:You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends on him. | |||
:Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to manage them. | |||
:He is going to sit at your desk in the Senate, and occupy your place on the Supreme Bench. | |||
:He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. | |||
:He is going to move in and take over your prisons, churches, schools, universities and corporations. | |||
:All your work is going to be judged and praised or condemned by him. | |||
:Your reputation and your future are in his hands. | |||
:All you work is for him, and the fate of the nations and of humanity is in his hands. | |||
:So it might be well to pay him some attention. | |||
::''Masonic Historiology'', edited by Allotter J. McKow | |||
::Similar quotations have been attributed to [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_lincoln#Disputed Abraham Lincoln]. | |||
==Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)== | ==Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE)== | ||