PREFACE

Human Nature

 

Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan.

There is an ancient Japanese story that three samurai each told from their individual perspectives. There was a great battle. The shogun was saved by the samurai, yet only one could have saved him; the others were not mentioned.

My wife and I went to Egypt, where we took a cruise down the Nile. It was fascinating, to say the least. Although I remember the pyramids and Sphinx, which I toured on an Arabian horse, I remember one story even more clearly.

After touring all the ancient monuments, one astute tourist asked a question of the tour guide: “Egypt has a 3,000-year history, but it looks like all the surviving monuments and temples have the name of the same pharaoh. ...

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