"Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, You can’t keep a good man down. Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down."
- John W. Gardner

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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Yep, that about sums it up….