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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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