Some people go through life with respect for others. Some people go through life accepting the respect of strangers. Guess who goes through life believing their own hype? Guess who goes through life respecting the dignity of others? Do you really have to guess? —RLN

Well-balanced people want to form well-balanced committees. If you see a committee where everyone behaves, thinks, and reacts the same way about the same things with little divergent thinking, you do not have a potent committee. You have a fan club. You can sell your autographs to the members, but you will never sell your ideas to the larger populations unless they are populated with sycophants. And that’s another problem. —RLN