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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

-Hazlitt,William
  Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

We are not about to send American boys 9,000 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
  On the war in Vietnam. Speech at  Akron University, 21Oct.

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

-Winterson,Jeanette
  Sexing the Cherry.

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