How Anybody Dresses Is Indicative Of His

It Is Not True That We Have Only One Life To Live; If We Can Read, We Can Live As Many More Lives And As Many Kinds Of Lives As We Wish.

People Who Think Of Themselves As Tough-minded And Realistic, Among Them Influential Political Leaders And Businessmen As Well As Go-getters And Hustlers Of Smaller Caliber, Tend To Take It For Granted That Human Nature Is Selfish And That Life Is A Struggle In Which Only The Fittest May Survive. According To This Philosophy, The Basic Law By Which Man Must Live, In Spite Of His Surface Veneer Of Civilization, Is The Law Of The Jungle. The "fittest" Are Those Who Can Bring To The Struggle Superior Force, Superior Cunning, And Superior Ruthlessness.

Ever Since Man Began To Till The Soil And Learned Not To Eat The Seed Grain But To Plant It And Wait For Harvest, The Postponement Of Gratification Has Been The Basis Of A Higher Standard Of Living And Of Civilization.

We Live In A Highly Competitive Society, Each Of Us Trying To Outdo The Other In Wealth, In Popularity Or Social Prestige, In Dress, In Scholastic Grades Or Golf Scores. One Is Often Tempted To Say That Conflict, Rather Than Cooperation, Is The Great Governing Principle Of Human Life.

I'm Going To Speak My Mind Because I Have Nothing To Lose.