"In every country the Communists have taken over, 
the first thing they do is outlaw cockfighting." 
           -John Monks, Oklahoma state representative, 
           arguing against a bill that would make
           cockfighting illegal in his state 
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Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies.
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Decay is inherent in all compound things"
-last words of the Buddah 483 BC
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"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
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"being defines itself" 
- Sartre
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"Truth is subjectivity." 
- Kierkegaard
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"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many 
fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right 
is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The 
virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance." 
- Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow, aph. 251 (1880) 
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"Man is born free, and is everywhere in chains." 
- Rousseau
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"It is a democratic fallacy to believe that people want to govern 
themselves,  people only ask to be governed decently."
- Josef Goebbels
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"A joke is not a joke when it deals with the sacred goods of the nation."
- Josef Goebbels
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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing. . .
It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. . . 
God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. .."
 - Thomas Jefferson (1780)
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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of 
the Western world. No first world country has ever managed to eliminate so 
entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent." 
- Gore Vidal (1991)
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Gandhi 
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"Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; 
for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two 
against three; they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother 
against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother- in-law against her 
daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
- Jesus, as represented in Luke 12:51 
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"On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, 
from the beginning of the world to this day,  have been quarreling, fighting, burning 
and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all 
others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind."
- Thomas Jefferson 
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"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give 
assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
- Abraham Lincoln 
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"The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth."
- Bill Clinton 
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"I don't consider an atheist a citizen, no."
- George Bush
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"Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they?"
- George Bush, visiting Auschwitz, Sept. 1989
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"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. 
We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex... uh... setbacks."
- George Bush 
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"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. 
He is always in alliance with the despot... they have  perverted the purest 
religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all 
mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose."
 - Thomas Jefferson 
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, 
then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein 
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"(Fundamentalists) never wonder why, if herpes is sent by 'god' to scourge 
'adulterers,' whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to 
lambaste children."
- Fred Woodworth 
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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
- Martin Luther
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel 
and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more 
than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it
the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness 
that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
- Thomas Paine
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"Who says that I am not under the special protection of God?"
- Adolf Hitler
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order 
to enjoy ourselves."
 -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Pleasure chews and grinds us."
- Montaigne
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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
 - Mark Twain
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"We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free 
enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order."
- Adolf Hitler
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DH Lawrence used to climb mulberry trees in the nude.
- A Fun Fact
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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while 
in fact language remains the master of man."
- Heidegger
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"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away"
 - Philip K. Dick 
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"Everything is true, nothing is sacred" 
- A. Crowley
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"Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law."
- A. Crowley
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"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, 
which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid 
defiance to the laws of our country."
- THOMAS JEFFERSON 
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"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
- Polish proverb
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"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin, you never 
know if someone's tape-recording what you say."
- Richard Nixon
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"All political parties die of swallowing their own lies."
-Jonathan Swift
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"The whole nation loves him, because it feels safe in his hands, like a child 
in the arms of his mother."
- Josef Goebbels, on Adolf Hitler
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"There usually is an answer to any problem: simple, clean, and wrong."
- H.L. Mencken
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular 
representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
- Karl Marx
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"A flea can be taught everything a congressman can."
- Mark Twain
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"We're going to move left and right at the same time."
- Governor Jerry Brown
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even 
when there is no river."
- Nikita Khrushchev
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"Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue- you have to learn to say no."
- Ronald Reagan (1980)
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"The way out is via the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"
- Confucius
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"To a man who is afraid, everything rustles."
-Sophocles
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"It is a central fact of human life that each person invents a reality in 
which to live. We do not discover reality, we construct it."
- Jay Martin, from "Who am I this time?"
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"The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." 
- Harlan Elison, Omni-Feb.`87
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"There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing 
a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark shriveling 
up the reality in which one is lodged."
- R.D. Laing, from "Politics of Experience"
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"I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance. And when I 
behold my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: it was 
the spirit of gravity - through him all things are ruined. One does not kill 
by anger but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
- Nietzsche, from "Thus Spake Zarathustera"
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this 
lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about 
it is false; it bites with stolen teeth."
- Nietzsche, from "Thus Spake Zarathustrera"
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"Stupid, flayed, abortive dog still persisted in living. Yet all it asks after 
all is that I let it love me, and not even that."
- R.D. Laing, from "The Bird of Paradise"
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"I have seen the Bird of Paradise, she has spread herself before me, and I 
shall never be the same again."
- R.D. Laing, from "The Bird of Paradise"
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"Many sensitive people, especially artists, are afraid that science 
besmirches and depresses, that it tears things apart rather than 
integrating them, thereby killing rather than creating."
- Abraham Maslow, from "Toward a psychology of being"
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"All human actions are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed"
- Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness, Conclusion, sct. 2)
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom 
of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power 
than by violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison 1788
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"What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral 
is what you feel bad after."
- Ernest Hemingway.
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"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."
- Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)
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"I can resist anything except temptation." 
- Oscar Wilde
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"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
- William Blake
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"Society has come a long way, before they would have burned me, now they 
are content with just burning my books."
- Freud's reaction to Nazi book burning.
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
- Oscar Wilde
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"In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless...". 
- These are Nietzsche's opening words in his book Twilight of the Idols.
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"All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it 
concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it
strengthens the power of resistance."
- Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, essay 2, aph. 14 (1887) 
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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
- Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, part 2, ch. 29 (1883) 
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also 
to hate his friends."
- Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword (1888) 
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"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the 
recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before 
on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked 
against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. 
I am not a man I am dynamite."
- Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, "Why I Am a Destiny" (1888) 
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel 
I must wash my hands." 
- Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, "Why I Am a Destiny" (1888) 
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"The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they 
still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the 
Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really 
intellectual things -- Deutschland, Deutschland Ÿber alles was, I fear, 
the end of German philosophy." 
- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, "What the Germans Lack," aph. 1 (1889) 
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"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing 
possible: one thereby almost deserves to live." 
- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, "Expeditions of an Untimely Man," aph. 36 (1889) 
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivety rests all aesthetics, 
it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing 
is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." 
- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, "Expeditions of an Untimely Man," aph. 20 (1889) 
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"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart -- not something that 
comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'" 
- Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, aph. 34 (1895) 
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"The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there 
has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
- Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, aph. 39 (1895) 
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it 
endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." 
- Nietzsche, The Will to Power, book 2, note 362 (1888) 
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by 
contrary extreme positions." 
- Nietzsche, The Will to Power, aph. 55 (1888) 
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"The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven 
he makes an ideal of his hell." 
- Nietzsche, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions, no. 23 (1879) 
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"Not necessity, not desire -- no, the love of power is the demon of men. 
Let them have everything -- health, food, a place to live, entertainment -- 
they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and 
waits and will be satisfied."
- Nietzsche, Daybreak, aph. 262 (1881) 
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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.-- 
A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation." 
- Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow, aph. 56 (1880) 
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"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are
now extinct."
- M. Somerset Maugham
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"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
- Oscar Wilde
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
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"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
- Heisenberg
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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that
cometh out of man, in their sight...Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I
have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith.
[Ezek. 4:12-15 (KJV)]
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But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to
thee, to speak these words?  Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the
wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
[2 Kings 18:27 (KJV)]
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When Yahweh your gods has settled you in the land you're about to occupy, and
driven out many infidels before you...you're to cut them down and exterminate
them.  You're to make no compromise with them or show them any mercy.
[Deut. 7:1 (KJV)]
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In the beginning, I was made.  I didn't ask to be made.  No one consulted
with me or considered my feelings in this matter.  But if it brought some
passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way
through life's mournful jungle, then so be it.
- Marvin the Paranoid Android, From Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the
Galaxy Radio Scripts
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.  What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
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Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
- Joey Ramone
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Seneca
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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The main thing is the play itself.  I swear that greed for money has nothing
to do with it, although heaven knows I am sorely in need of money.
- Feodor Dostoyevsky
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
- Robert Bly
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- Alan Turing
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Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation.
- Blaise Pascal
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After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect.
- Freeman Dyson
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"It was the Law of the Sea, they said.	Civilization ends at the waterline.
Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
- Fred Brooks, Jr.
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Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
- Ellyn Mustard
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Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse.
- C. N. Parkinson
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"One moment please. I bring you a message. Exactly six miles north of
scag mountain, in a valley of pain, there lives an evil devil monster.
His name is Bingo, gas station, motel, cheese burger with a side of
aircraft noise, and you'll be Gary, Indiana. And he LOVES to hurt
people. The last time I saw Bingo, gas station, motel, cheese burger
with a side of aircraft noise, and you'll be Gary, Indiana, he told me
what he wants to do- he wants to come down here and kill each and every
one of you. But I said to him, Bingo, wait a minute. And the reason I
said that is because I believe in you people. I believe you can do the
job. I believe you can help each other. I believe you can make this
world a better place to live in. That's it."
- Jesus, as represented in Robert Downey's "Greaser's Palace"
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Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. 
- Peanuts
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"The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace."
- Holly Near
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"I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs."
- H. L. Mencken
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"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
there if you want to keep writing good code."
- Karl Lehenbauer
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand
years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man
is and will always be a wild animal.
- Charles Galton Darwin
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Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection.
We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be.
Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably.
- Greg Bear
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"Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."
- Michael O'Donoghue
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"It's like deja vu all over again."   -- Yogi Berra
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The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.
- Blaise Pascal
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"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.  "Begin at the beginning,"
the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
- Thomas Jefferson
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A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is
never sure.   
-Proverb
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"You see but you do not observe."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
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You can observe a lot just by watching.
- Yogi Berra
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb
to you till your life has illustrated it.
- John Keats
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,
a rivalry of aim.
- Henry Brook Adams
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If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of a circuit, I
see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by
electricity.
- Samuel F. B. Morse
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
- Ramsey Clark
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It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
- Abraham Lincoln
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it is too
dark to read."
- Marx (Groucho)
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The existence of god would imply a violation of causality.
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Repel them.  Repel them.  Induce them to relinquish the spheroid.
- Indiana University fans' chant for their perennially bad football team
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If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine.
If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine.
- A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming
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   It is either through the influence of narcotic potions, of which all
primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the powerful approach
of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that those Dionysian stirrings
arise, which in their intensification lead the individual to forget himself
completely. . . .Not only does the bond between man and man come to be forged
once again by the magic of the Dionysian rite, but alienated, hostile, or
subjugated nature again celebrates her reconciliation with her prodigal son,
man.
- Fred Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between
the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,
makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external
perparation...to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak...
I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid 
to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive
reality.  Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character
of LSD as a sacred drug.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis
pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only 
by a change in our world view.  We shall have to shift from the materialistic,
dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a
new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the 
experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate 
nature and all of creation.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related
hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails
dangers that must not be underestimated.  Practitioners must take into
account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to
influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being.  The history
of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can
ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken
for a pleasure drug.  Special internal and external advance preperations
are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful
experience.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability
more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjution
with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder
child.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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Felson's Law:
	To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
	many is research.
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If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better,
and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can
convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.
- Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde
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"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
- Thomas Paine
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
- Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the
improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
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Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church,
nor by any Church that I know of.  My own mind is my own Church.
- Thomas Paine
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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being
as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of
the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.  But we may hope that the
dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with
this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and genuine
doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.  Let us
restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which
liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.  And let us reflect
that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which
mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a
political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and
bloody persecutions.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.  Nowhere
in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths,
Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in
Christianity.
- John Adams
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The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion.  I could
never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
- Abraham Lincoln
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As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion,
as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see;
but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have,
with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his
divinity.
- Benjamin Franklin
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I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have
gotten the hostages released.  I thank God they were satisfied with the
missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.
- Oliver North
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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only
opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts
at rational thinking.  Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of
knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable.  Since the earliest
days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every
effort to liberate the body and mind of man.  It has been, at all times and
everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad
laws, bad social theories, bad institutions.  It was, for centuries, an
apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.
- H. L. Mencken
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The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes -- that it
leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere 
effects -- this notion has no support in the plain facts.  If it could,
science would explain the origin of life on earth at once--and there is 
every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow.
To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled,
not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give
ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity....
- H. L. Mencken, 1930
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The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective
support, is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has
its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way.
Thus the familiar argument that there is an instinctive desire for immortality,
and that this desire proves it to be a fact, becomes puerile when it is
recalled that there is also a powerful and widespread fear of annihilation,
and that this fear, on the same principle proves that there is nothing
beyond the grave.  Such childish "proofs" are typically theological, and
they remain theological even when they are adduced by men who like to 
flatter themselves by believing that they are scientific gents....
- H. L. Mencken
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There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon,
however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.
Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be 
discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator
on his own account.  The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is
even highly probable.
- H. L. Mencken, 1930
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and
fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are
drifting side by side to our common doom.
- Clarence Darrow
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The meek are contesting the will.
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I'm sick of being trodden on!  The Elder Gods say they can make me a man!
All it costs is my soul!  I'll do it, cuz NOW I'M MAD!!!
- Necronomicomics #1, Jack Herman & Jeff Dee
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"You know why there are so few sophisticated computer terrorists in the United
States?  Because your hackers have so much mobility into the establishment.
Here, there is no such mobility.  If you have the slightest bit of intellectual
integrity you cannot support the government.... That's why the best computer 
minds belong to the opposition."
- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity
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"Every Solidarity center had piles and piles of paper .... everyone was
eating paper and a policeman was at the door.  Now all you have to do is
bend a disk."
- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity, 
  commenting on the benefits of using computers in support of their movement
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Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
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The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money.
- Ed Bluestone
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Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
- Frank Zappa
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I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and
tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this
country with being sick and tired.  I'm certainly not.  But I'm
sick and tired of being told that I am.
- Monty Python
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"Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his 
roars.  Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters
  of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.
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...we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent
observations and inferences by the thousands.  The earth is billions of
years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary
descent.  Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but
do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither
flat nor at the center of the universe?  Science *has* taught us some
things with confidence!  Evolution on an ancient earth is as well
established as our planet's shape and position.  Our continuing struggle
to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not
cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" --
into doubt.
- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer,
  Vol XII No. 2
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our
pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs
and tears.  ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires
us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness,
inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are
contrary to habit...
- Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 B.C.), The Sacred Disease
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This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms 
industry is now in the American experience... We must not fail to 
comprehend its grave implications... We must guard against the 
acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial
complex.  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address in 1961
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Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon
insufficient evidence.
- W. K. Clifford, British philosopher, circa 1876
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire
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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.  We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly --
that is the first law of nature.
- Voltaire
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because
he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- Voltaire
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I simply try to aid in letting the light of historical truth into that
decaying mass of outworn thought which attaches the modern world to
medieval conceptions of Christianity, and which still lingers among us --
a most serious barrier to religion and morals, and a menace to the whole
normal evolution of society.
- Andrew D. White, author, first president of Cornell University, 1896
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The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be.... The
natural disposition is always to believe.  It is acquired wisdom and experience
only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
- Adam Smith
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However, on religious issures there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs.  There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf
should be used sparingly.  The religious factions that are growing
throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.
They are trying to force government leaders into following their position
100 percent.  If you disagree with these religious groups on a 
particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of
money or votes or both.  I'm frankly sick and tired of the political
preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be
a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D."  Just who do
they think they are?  And from where do they presume to claim the 
right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?  And I am even more angry as
a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who
thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll
call in the Senate.  I am warning them today:  I will fight them every
step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all
Americans in the name of "conservatism."
- Senator Barry Goldwater, from the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981
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"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass."
- Senator Barry Goldwater, when asked what he thought of Jerry Falwell's
suggestion that all good Christians should be against Sandra Day O'Connor's
nomination to the Supreme Court
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...And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers.  No matter how assured
we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful
inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.  This is true in religion as
it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive.
As for the fanatics, whose number is legion in our own time, we might be
advised to leave them to heaven.  They will not, unfortunately, do us the
same courtesy.  They attack us and each other, and whatever their 
protestations to peaceful intent, the bloody record of history makes clear
that they are easily disposed to restore to the sword.  My own belief in
God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge.  My respect
for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the
most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth.  But even well-educated Christians
are frustated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure
of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record.
Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every
recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it.  Some Christians, alas,
resort to formal lying to obscure such reality.
- Steve Allen, from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction"
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...it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the
existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great
systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative
hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
- Sidney Hook
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A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
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They [preachers] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach
of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions
of the duperies on which they live.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent.
- George Orwell
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As I argued in "Beloved Son", a book about my son Brian and the subject
of religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction
in the methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless
conversions -- to anything -- less likely.  Brian now realizes this and
has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with.  The 
problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to
a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy
is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and 
irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in 
changing the believer's mind.
- Steve Allen,  from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction"
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult
than to understand him.
- Fyodor Dostoevski
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The Messiah will come.  There will be a resurrection of the dead -- all
the things that Jews believed in before they got so damn sophisticated.
- Rabbi Meir Kahane
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The world is no nursery.
- Sigmund Freud
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If one inquires why the American tradition is so strong against any
connection of State and Church, why it dreads even the rudiments of
religious teaching in state-maintained schools, the immediate and
superficial answer is not far to seek....
The cause lay largely in the diversity and vitality of the various
denominations, each fairly sure that, with a fair field and no favor,
it could make its own way; and each animated by a jealous fear that,
if any connection of State and Church were permitted, some rival
denomination would get an unfair advantage.
- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher, from 
   "Democracy in the Schools", 1908
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Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that
every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be
submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.  All proffered 
samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to 
common tests.  It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that
any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse.  The characteristic
of religion, from their point of view, is that it is intellectually
secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generall known; 
authoritatively declared, not communicated and tested in ordinary 
ways...It is pertinent to point out that, as long as religion is
conceived as it is now by the great majority of professed religionists,
there is something self-contradictory in speaking of education in
religion in the same sense in which we speak of education in topics
where the method of free inquiry has made its way.  The "religious"
would be the last to be willing that either the history of the
content of religion should be taught in this spirit; while those
to whom the scientific standpoint is not merely a technical device,
but is the embodiment of the integrity of mind, must protest against
its being taught in any other spirit.
- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher, 
  from "Democracy in the Schools", 1908
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In the broad and final sense all institutions are educational in the
sense that they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities
and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality...Whether this
educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-
democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance
not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the
interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic
way of life.
- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge,
periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts
them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing
grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another...
Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every
moult is a step gained.
- Charles Darwin, from "Origin of the Species"
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...I would go so far as to suggest that, were it not for our ego and 
concern to be different, the African apes would be included in our 
family, the Hominidae.
- Richard Leakey
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It is inconceivable that a judicious observer from another solar system
would see in our species -- which has tended to be cruel, destructive,
wasteful, and irrational -- the crown and apex of cosmic evolution.
Viewing us as the culmination of *anything* is grotesque; viewing us
as a transitional species makes more sense -- and gives us more hope.
- Betty McCollister, "Our Transitional Species", 
   Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1
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"Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature.  It's a piss-poor
reptile and not very much of a bird."
- Melvin Konner, from "The Tangled Wing", quoting a zoologist who has
   studied the archeopteryz and found it "very much like people"
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to
 create him."
 -Arthur C. Clarke
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"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
 -Ronald Reagan
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"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things 
 we don't know yet."
 -Ambrose Bierce
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"Plan to throw one away.  You will anyway."
- Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who
are equally certain that they represent the divine will.  I am sure that
either the one or the other is mistaken in the belief, and perhaps in some
respects, both.
I hope it will not be irreverent of me to say that if it is probable that
God would reveal his will to others on a point so connected with my duty,
it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Brain damage is all in your head.
- Karl Lehenbauer
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"It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try, but
the result's the same."
- Mike Dennison
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"Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple
and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and
because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.  What could be
more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our
entire intellectualy heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing
honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment
to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any
general understanding of science as an enterprise?
- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186
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It is not well to be thought of as one who meekly submits to insolence and
intimidation.
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"Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation."
- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments
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"We will bury you."
- Nikita Kruschev
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"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."
- B. L. Whorf
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"Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times
been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics,
culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation
of events.  Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two
millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there
are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more
nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined.
- John K. Naland, "The First Easter", Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2
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"All Bibles are man-made."
- Thomas Edison
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"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
- Samuel Goldwyn
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"We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement."
- Richard J. Daley
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"Lead us in a few words of silent prayer."
- Bill Peterson, former Houston Oiler football coach
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"Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head
is concerned."
- Baseball pitcher Bo Belinsky
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"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental."
- Yogi Berra
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I did cancel one performance in Holland where they thought my music was so easy
that they didn't rehearse at all.  And so the first time when I found that out,
I rehearsed the orchestra myself in front of the audience of 3,000 people and
the next day I rehearsed through the second movement -- this was the piece
_Cheap Imitation_ -- and they then were ashamed.  The Dutch people were ashamed
and they invited me to come to the Holland festival and they promised to
rehearse.  And when I got to Amsterdam they had changed the orchestra, and
again, they hadn't rehearsed.  So they were no more prepared the second time
than they had been the first.  I gave them a lecture and told them to cancel
the performance; they then said over the radio that I had insisted on their
cancelling the performance because they were "insufficiently Zen."  
Can you believe it?
- composer John Cage, "Electronic Musician" magazine, March 88, pg. 89
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An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; 
a pessimist fears this is true.
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"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
- Bernard Berenson
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"Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always 
high, and the results usually disappointing."
- Robert Orben
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging 
their prejudices."
- William James
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"Tell the truth and run."
- Yugoslav proverb
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"Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature... Life is 
either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is 
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson
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SHOP OR DIE, people of Earth!
[offer void where prohibited]
- Capitalists from outer space, from Justice League Int'l comics
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"I take Him shopping with me. I say, 'OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain'" 
-Tammy Faye Bakker
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
- George Carlin
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"One of the problems I've always had with propaganda pamphlets is that they're 
real boring to look at.  They're just badly designed.  People from the left
often are very well-intended, but they never had time to take basic design 
classes, you know?"
- Art Spiegelman
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"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb."
- Spaceballs
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"We don't have to protect the environment -- the Second Coming is at hand."
- James Watt, Reagan white house
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"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
- Woody Allen
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Noncombatant:  A dead Quaker.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
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"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never 
stop throwing up."
- Max Von Sydow's character in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
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"Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again.  
God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."
- Woody Allen's character in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
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"We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb 
your cities."
- Robin Williams, Good Morning Vietnam
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It was pity stayed his hand.
"Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito.
- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein
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"Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk."
- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, 
barely presentable."
- Fran Lebowitz
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Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.
- Russian Proverb
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"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
- C. Schulz
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"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make 
empty prophecies.  The danger already exists that mathematicians have made 
a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the 
bonds of Hell."
- Saint Augustine
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"The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones."
- Nathaniel Howe
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"Would I turn on the gas if my pal Mugsy were in there?"
"You might, rabbit, you might!"
- Looney Tunes, Bugs and Thugs (1954, Friz Freleng)
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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"Nuclear war would really set back cable."
- Ted Turner
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Mausoleum:  The final and funniest folly of the rich.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Saint:  A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Meekness:  Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Absolute:  Independent, irresponsible.  An absolute monarchy is one in which
the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.  Not
many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by
limited monarchies, where the soverign's power for evil (and for good) is
greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Abstainer:  A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a
pleasure.  A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but
abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Alliance:  In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their
hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately
plunder a third.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Disobedience:  The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Egotist:  A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Administration:  An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive
the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president.
- Ambrose Bierce
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A penny saved is a penny to squander.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Ocean:  A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man --
who has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Philosophy:  A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Politics:  A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Politician:  An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of
organized society is reared.  When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of
his tail for the trembling of the edifice.  As compared with the statesman,
he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Pray:  To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single
petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Inadmissible:  Not competent to be considered.  Said of certain kinds of
testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with,
and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves
alone.  Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was
unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous 
actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are
daily undertaken on hearsay evidence.  There is no religion in the world
that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.  Revelation is hearsay
evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the
testimony of men long dead whose identy is not clearly established and
who are not known to have been sworn in any sense.  Under the rules of
evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the
Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law...

But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved
that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to
mankind.  The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women
were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still
unimpeachable.  The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and
in law.  Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than
the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death.
If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike
destitute of value.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known.  I could
no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath."
- Paolo Uccello, Renaissance artist, discoverer of the laws of perspective
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"Remember Kruschev:  he tried to do too many things too fast, and he was 
removed in disgrace.  If Gorbachev tries to destroy the system or make too
many fundamental changes to it, I believe the system will get rid of him.
I am not a political scientist, but I understand the system very well.
I believe he will have a "heart attack" or retire or be removed.  He is
up against a brick wall.  If you think they will change everything and
become a free, open society, forget it!"
- Victor Belenko, MiG-25 fighter pilot who defected in 1976
   "Defense Electronics", Vol 20, No. 6, pg. 110
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"I knew then (in 1970) that a 4-kbyte minicomputer would cost as much as
a house.  So I reasoned that after college, I'd have to live cheaply in
an apartment and put all my money into owning a computer."
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, EE Times, June 6, 1988, pg 45
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HP had a unique policy of allowing its engineers to take parts from stock as
long as they built something.  "They figured that with every design, they were 
getting a better engineer.  It's a policy I urge all companies to adopt."
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, "Will Wozniak's class give Apple to teacher?"
   EE Times, June 6, 1988, pg 45
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"A dirty mind is a joy forever."
- Randy Kunkee
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It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it 
should have done.  Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course 
of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half.  No country 
should be so long without one.
- Thomas Jefferson in letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787
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"Facts are stupid things."
- President Ronald Reagan 
   (a blooper from his speech at the '88 GOP convention)
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"The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science
collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke
miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into
the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to 
abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all
fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion,
misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the
ideas of their opponents."
- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", 
   The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 87/88, pg. 186
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
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"Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it."
- Mark Twain
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"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral
crisis, preserved their neutrality."
- Dante
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"There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
- Mark Twain
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"You'll pay to know what you really think."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
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"What people have been reduced to are mere 3-D representations of their own 
data. They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE
is driving the car "for insurance", ...  your driver's license number. In the
state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social
Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a
number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give
out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts.
Data is a lot like humans:  It is born.  Matures.  Gets married to other data,
divorced. Gets old.  One thing that it doesn't do is die.  It has to be killed."
- Arthur Miller
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"Once they go up, who cares where they come down?  That's not my department."
- Werner von Braun
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"When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if
it were a nail."
- Abraham Maslow
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"The lesser of two evils -- is evil."
- Seymour (Sy) Leon
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"An honest god is the noblest work of man.  ... God has always resembled his
creators.  He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably
found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with
sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine
perfume."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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"We are not endeavoring to chain the future but to free the present. ... We are
the advocates of inquiry, investigation, and thought. ... It is grander to think
and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed. ... I look for the day
when *reason*, throned upon the world's brains, shall be the King of Kings and
the God of Gods.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Buy land.  They've stopped making it."
- Mark Twain
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Work was impossible.  The geeks had broken my spirit.  They had done too
many things wrong.  It was never like this for Mencken.  He lived like
a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker
than Judas on others.  It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these
raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City", _Generation of Swine_
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"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon."
- Ronald Reagan, "People" magazine, December 26, 1985
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"The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down."
- H.L. Mencken
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The reported resort to astrology in the White House has occasioned much
merriment.  It is not funny.  Astrological gibberish, which means astrology
generally, has no place in a newspaper, let alone government.  Unlike comics,
which are part of a newspaper's harmless pleasure and make no truth claims,
astrology is a fraud.  The idea that it gets a hearing in government is
dismaying.
- George Will, Washing Post Writers Group
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Astrology is the sheerest hokum.  This pseudoscience has been around since
the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians.  It is as phony as numerology,
phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice
of divination by the entrails of a goat.  No serious person will buy the
notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of
distant planets.  This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.
- James J. Kilpatrick, Universal Press Syndicate
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[Astrology is] 100 percent hokum, Ted.  As a matter of fact, the first edition
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, written in 1771 -- 1771! -- said that this
belief system is a subject long ago ridiculed and reviled.  We're dealing with
beliefs that go back to the ancient Babylonians.  There's nothing there....
It sounds a lot like science, it sounds like astronomy.  It's got technical
terms.  It's got jargon.  It confuses the public....The astrologer is quite
glib, confuses the public, uses terms which come from science, come from
metaphysics, come from a host of fields, but they really mean nothing.  The
fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years.  Now that
should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case.  They
have not proved their case....It's just simply gibberish.  The fact is, there's
no theory for it, there are no observational data for it.  It's been tested
and tested over the centuries.  Nobody's ever found any validity to it at
all.  It is not even close to a science.  A science has to be repeatable, it
has to have a logical foundation, and it has to be potentially vulnerable --
you test it.  And in that astrology is reqlly quite something else.
- Astronomer Richard Berendzen, President, American University, on ABC
    News "Nightline," May 3, 1988
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Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about
astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an
effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?  What force or influence,
what sort of energy would travel from the planets and stars to all human
beings and affect our development or fate?  No amount of scientific-sounding
jargon or computerized calculations by astrologers can disguise this central
problem with astrology -- we can find no evidence of a mechanism by which
celestial objects can influence us in so specific and personal a way. . . .
Some astrologers argue that there may be a still unknown force that represents
the astrological influence. . . .If so, astrological predictions -- like those
of any scientific field -- should be easily tested. . . . Astrologers always
claim to be just a little too busy to carry out such careful tests of their
efficacy, so in the last two decades scientists and statisticians have
generously done such testing for them.  There have been dozens of well-designed
tests all around the world, and astrology has failed every one of them. . . .
I propose that we let those beckoning lights in the sky awaken our interest
in the real (and fascinating) universe beyond our planet, and not let them
keep us tied to an ancient fantasy left over from a time when we huddled by
the firelight, afraid of the night.
- Andrew Fraknoi, Executive Officer, Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
    "Why Astrology Believers Should Feel Embarrassed," San Jose Mercury
    News, May 8, 1988
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With the news that Nancy Reagan has referred to an astrologer when planning
her husband's schedule, and reports of Californians evacuating Los Angeles
on the strength of a prediction from a sixteenth-century physician and
astrologer Michel de Notredame, the image of the U.S. as a scientific and
technological nation has taking a bit of a battering lately.  Sadly, such
happenings cannot be dismissed as passing fancies.  They are manifestations
of a well-established "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. which, ultimately,
could threaten the country's position as a technological power. . . .  The
manifest widespread desire to reject rationality and substitute a series
of quasirandom beliefs in order to understand the universe does not augur
well for a nation deeply concerned about its ability to compete with its
industrial equals.  To the degree that it reflects the thinking of a 
significant section of the public, this point of view encourages ignorance
of and, indeed, contempt for science and for rational methods of approaching
truth. . . . It is becoming clear that if the U.S. does not pick itself up
soon and devote some effort to educating the young effectively, its hope of
maintaining a semblance of leadership in the world may rest, paradoxically,
with a new wave of technically interested and trained immigrants who do not
suffer from the anti-science disease rampant in an apparently decaying society.
- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New Scientist," May 19, 1988
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miracle:  an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment.
- Webster's Dictionary
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"I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and
 my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes."
- George Carlin
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"My father?  My father left when I was quite young.  Well actually, he
 was asked to leave.  He had trouble metabolizing alcohol."
- George Carlin
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"I turn on my television set.  I see a young lady who goes under the guise
of being a Christian, known all over the nation, dressed in skin-tight
leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rythm of the
music as the strobe lights beat their patterns across the stage and the
band plays the contemporary rock sound which cannot be differentiated from
songs by the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or anyone else.  And you may try
to tell me this is of God and that it is leading people to Christ, but I
know better.
- Jimmy Swaggart, hypocritical sexual pervert and TV preacher, self-described
   pornography addict, "Two points of view: 'Christian' rock and roll.", 
   The Evangelist, 17(8): 49-50.
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"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
- Mark Twain
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"Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances."
- Seymour Cray
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"Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor
of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated,
it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
- Oscar Wilde
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"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in.  I'm glad they
are a snowman with protective rubber skin" 
- They Might Be Giants
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"We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know."
- Plato
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"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having
a 'War' on it?"
- Rich Thomson
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"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a
cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." 
- H.L. Mencken
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"Never give in.  Never give in.  Never. Never. Never."
- Winston Churchill
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"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of
 Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.  I collected some of
 their Proverbs..." 
 - Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
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"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein
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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is
the exact opposite."
- Bertrand Russell, _Sceptical_Essays_, 1928
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"It says he made us all to be just like him.  So if we're dumb, then god is
dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side."
- Frank Zappa
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"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality
at any point."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality?  He who *suffers*
 from it."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, addressing anti-semitic Christians
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"Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of 
nature are constantly broken for their sakes."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Science makes godlike -- it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes
 scientific.  Moral:  science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is 
 forbidden.  Science is the *first* sin, the *original* sin.  *This alone is
 morality.* ``Thou shalt not know'' -- the rest follows."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Faith:  not *wanting* to know what is true."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with 
the ideal never goes unpunished."
- Goethe
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"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
 and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
 feature.  They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"I call Christianity the *one* great curse, the *one* great intrinsic 
depravity, the *one* great instinct for revenge for which no expedient
is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, *petty* -- I call it
the *one* mortal blemish of mankind."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
- Mark Twain
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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips
 over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening
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"You and I as individuals can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but
only for a limited period of time.  Why should we think that collectively,
as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?"
- Ronald Reagan
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"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort,
he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion."
- Mick Farren, _When Gravity Fails_
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"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
- Nikita Khrushchev
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
saftey deserve neither liberty not saftey."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is
constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role
they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
- Noam Chomsky
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I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of 
others, and all positive assertion of my own.  I even forbade myself the use 
of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, 
such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", etc.   I adopted instead of them "I 
conceive", "I apprehend", or "I imagine" a thing to be so or so; or "so it 
appears to me at present".

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the 
pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some 
absurdity in his proposition.  In answering I began by observing that in 
certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present
case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc.

I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I 
engaged in went on more pleasantly.  The modest way in which I proposed my 
opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction.  I had 
less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily 
prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I 
happened to be in the right.
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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"If you can, help others.  If you can't, at least don't hurt others."
- the Dalai Lama
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"One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that
 sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer
 terror."
- W. K. Hartmann
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"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'rain'."
- Michael McClary
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A classic is something that everyone wants to have read
and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature"
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A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
- Mark Twain
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Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.  Another man's, I mean.
- Mark Twain
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
- Mark Twain
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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. 
You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
officials have gone by.
- Mark Twain
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Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must
have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?  And hain't that a big
enough majority in any town?
- Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn"
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- Mark Twain
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
in reading it at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
- Ernest Hemingway
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If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.
- Mark Twain
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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus,
"one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
- Mark Twain
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In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into
use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather
which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
- Mark Twain
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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but
the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they
have obtained from books of travel.
- Mark Twain
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In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made
school boards.
- Mark Twain
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has
shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.  Therefore ... in the Old
Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred
thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the
Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long.  ... There is
something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesome returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
- Mark Twain
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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition.  There was once a man
who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that
there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
- Mark Twain
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
- Mark Twain
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No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.
- Mark Twain
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"The weekend is when businessman gather on the golfcourses to plot the evil that
they will do in the next week."
- George Carlin
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No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you!  Consider the furniture!
- Sherlock Holmes
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
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October 12, the Discovery.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss
it.
- Mark Twain
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of
Congress.  But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
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The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ.  by Professor Scott Rice.  It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist.  He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."

Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton.  This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830.  The full line reveals why it is so bad:

	It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
	at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
	wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
	lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
	flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that
procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain
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The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
	The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax.  A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
	Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, "I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me."
	Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece.  "Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure.  I'm sure you can give it a better
turn."
	After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side.  "There is no need to touch the
lines," he said.  "All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered.  I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."
	Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before.  His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge.  "Ay", he commented, "now they are perfectly right.  Nothing can
be better."
- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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The Least Successful Collector
	Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting.  She
was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had
amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the
works of Shakespeare.
	One day Warburton returned home to find 55 of them charred beyond
legibility.  Betsy had either burned them or used them as pie bottoms.  The
remaining three folios are now in the British Museum.
	The only comparable literary figure was the maid who in 1835 burned
the manuscript of the first volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory of the
French Revolution", thinking it was wastepaper.
- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that
will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
- Mark Twain
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
- Mark Twain
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There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
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To do is to be.
		-- Nietzsche
To be is to do.
		-- Sartre
Do be do be do.
		-- Sinatra
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain
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Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
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What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
- Nero Wolfe, "The League of Frightened Men"
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What I tell you three times is true.
- Lewis Carroll
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to
go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
- Mark Twain
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
- Mark Twain
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"
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	You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the
Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the
parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
- Sherlock Holmes
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
- Stanislaw Lem
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A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I.  
I believe everything positively stinks.
- Lew Col
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A man said to the Universe:
	"Sir, I exist!"
	"However," replied the Universe,
	"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
- Stephen Crane
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A master was asked the question, "What is the Way?" by a curious monk.
	"It is right before your eyes," said the master.
	"Why do I not see it for myself?"
	"Because you are thinking of yourself."
	"What about you: do you see it?"
	"So long as you see double, saying `I don't', and `you do', and so
on, your eyes are clouded," said the master.
	"When there is neither `I' nor `You', can one see it?"
	"When there is neither `I' nor `You',
who is the one that wants to see it?"
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A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. 
Replied Voltaire, "This is no time to make new enemies."
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A priest asked: What is Fate, Master?
	And the Master answered:
	It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence.
It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs.
	It is that which has caused nations to build byways from City
to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns
have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness.
	And that is Fate?  said the priest.
	Fate... I thought you said Freight, responded the Master.
	That's all right, said the priest.  I wanted to know
what Freight was too.
- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
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A sad spectacle.  If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the stars
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A Scholar asked his Master, "Master, would you advise me of a proper
vocation?"
	The Master replied, "Some men can earn their keep with the power of
their minds.  Others must use thier strong backs, legs and hands.  This is
the same in nature as it is with man.  Some animals acquire their food easily,
such as rabbits, hogs and goats.  Other animals must fiercely struggle for
their sustenance, like beavers, moles and ants.  So you see, the nature of
the vocation must fit the individual.
	"But I have no abilities, desires, or imagination, Master," the
scholar sobbed.
	Queried the Master... "Have you thought of becoming a salesperson?"
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
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A would-be disciple came to Nasrudin's hut on the mountain-side.  Knowing
that every action of such an enlightened one is significant, the seeker
watched the teacher closely.  "Why do you blow on your hands?"  "To warm
myself in the cold."  Later, Nasrudin poured bowls of hot soup for himself
and the newcomer, and blew on his own.  "Why are you doing that, Master?"
"To cool the soup."  Unable to trust a man who uses the same process
to arrive at two different results -- hot and cold -- the disciple departed.
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri
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All men know the utility of useful things;
but they do not know the utility of futility.
- Chuang-tzu
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.
- The Book of Bokonon / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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All of us should treasure his Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a
Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks,
tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks:
"Just lie down on the floor and keep calm."
- Robert Wilson, "John Dillinger Died for You"
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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	An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a
great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures.
I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment.
I have given up everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but
I have not been enlightened.  What should I do?"
	Otis replied, "Give up suffering."
- Camden Benares, "Zen Without Zen Masters"
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At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all
my soul.  At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my
ignorance upon the shore.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser.  But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
- The Mahabharata
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	"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I
ought to go from here?"
	"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
	"I don't care much where--" said Alice.
	"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- Herodotus
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
- Herodotus
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery
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Good-bye.  I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Saunders' dying words
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tsu
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- Oscar Levant
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Socrates
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He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for
the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus
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He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tsu
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I do not seek the ignorant; the ignorant seek me -- I will instruct them.
I ask nothing but sincerity.  If they come out of habit, they become tiresome.
- I Ching
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"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very
reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
- Gotama Buddha
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	"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put
more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.'"
- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.  I don't say embrace trouble; that's
as bad as treating it as an enemy.  But I do say meet it as a friend, for
you'll see a lot of it and you had better be on speaking terms with it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
- Anatole France
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Voltaire
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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as
`all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled
with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'
- M.D. Epstein
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Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
- Edgar W. Howe
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	"It's today!" said Piglet.
	"My favorite day," said Pooh.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"]
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
- James Thurber
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[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment
where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand
more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.
- S. Kierkegaard
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Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly.  An aide once asked him
how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week.
The great man replied that it was because this week he knew better.
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
- Theodore Sturgeon
%
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would.
The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
- Augustine
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No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the
Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if
a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne, "No Man is an Iland"
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Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this:
to know so much and have control over nothing.
- Herodotus
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	One day it was announced that the young monk Kyogen had reached
an enlightened state.  Much impressed by this news, several of his peers
went to speak with him.
	"We have heard that you are enlightened.  Is this true?" his fellow
students inquired.
	"It is", Kyogen answered.
	"Tell us", said a friend, "how do you feel?"
	"As miserable as ever", replied the enlightened Kyogen.
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One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the
truth.  A gallows was erected in front of the city gates.  A herald announced,
"Whoever would enter the city must first answer the truth to a question
which will be put to him."  Nasrudin was first in line.  The captain of the
guard asked him, "Where are you going?  Tell the truth -- the alternative
is death by hanging."
	"I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on that gallows."
	"I don't believe you."
	"Very well, if I have told a lie, then hang me!"
	"But that would make it the truth!"
	"Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth."
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
- Philip K. Dick
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by
no means the only 'certain' standard.  If you mistake what is relative for
something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
- Chuang Tzu
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Suffering alone exists, none who suffer;
The deed there is, but no doer thereof;
Nirvana is, but no one is seeking it;
The Path there is, but none who travel it.
- "Buddhist Symbolism", Symbols and Values
%
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- A. Camus
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"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."
- G. Fitch
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing,
the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its
own capacity. ...  Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god
of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god
of the center.  Chaos treated them very handsomely and they discussed together
what they could do to repay his kindness.  They had noticed that, whereas
everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and
so on, Chaos had none.  So they decided to make the experiment of boring holes
in him.  Every day they bored a hole, and on the seventh day, Chaos died.
- Chuang Tzu
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be.
- Lao Tsu
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably
not true.  It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H.L. Mencken
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The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal.
The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may
experience it as such.  Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and
thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid.  Whoever
could feel the course of a light ray would be very happy, for it is very
swift.  Thinking of oneself gives little happiness.  If, however, one feels
much happiness in this, it is because at bottom one is not thinking of
oneself but of one's ideal.  This is far, and only the swift shall reach
it and are delighted.
- Nietzsche
%
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"
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The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases:
"Let our thoughts be correct".
- Confucius
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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height
but just above the ground.  It seems more designed to make people stumble
than to be walked upon.
- Franz Kafka
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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
%
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
- Lenny Bruce
%
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
- Stanley Kubrick
%
Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
%
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Gandhi
%
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
- Voltaire
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You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
- Tim Leary
%
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
%
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin		
%
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
- Groucho Marx
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All men are mortal.  Socrates was mortal.  Therefore, all men are Socrates.
- Woody Allen
%
Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and
none of his friends like him either.
- Oscar Wilde
%
"Don't come back until you have him", the Tick-Tock Man said quietly,
sincerely, extremely dangerously.

They used dogs.  They used probes.  They used cardio plate crossoffs.
They used teepers.  They used bribery.  They used stick tites.  They used
intimidation.  They used torment.  They used torture.  They used finks.
They used cops.  They used search and seizure.  They used fallaron.  They
used betterment incentives.  They used finger prints.  They used the
bertillion system.  They used cunning.  They used guile.  They used treachery.
They used Raoul-Mitgong but he wasn't much help.  They used applied physics.
They used techniques of criminology.  And what the hell, they caught him.
- Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin, said the Tick-Tock Man"
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High Priest:	Armaments Chapter One, verses nine through twenty-seven:
Bro. Maynard:	And Saint Attila raised the Holy Hand Grenade up on high
	saying, "Oh Lord, Bless us this Holy Hand Grenade, and with it
	smash our enemies to tiny bits."  And the Lord did grin, and the
	people did feast upon the lambs, and stoats, and orangutans, and
	breakfast cereals, and lima bean-
High Priest:	Skip a bit, brother.
Bro. Maynard:	And then the Lord spake, saying: "First, shalt thou take
	out the holy pin.  Then shalt thou count to three.  No more, no less.
	*Three* shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the
	counting shall be three.  *Four* shalt thou not count, and neither
	count thou two, excepting that thou then goest on to three.  Five is
	RIGHT OUT.  Once the number three, being the third number be reached,
	then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade towards thy foe, who, being
	naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.  Amen.
All:	Amen.
- Monty Python, "The Holy Hand Grenade"
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that
either.
- Jack Benny
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Consider the following axioms carefully:
	"Everything's better when it sits on a Ritz."
	                        and
	"Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it."
What happens if one spreads Blue Bonnet margarine on a Ritz cracker?  The
thought is frightening.  Is this how God came into being?  Try not to
consider the fact that "Things go better with Coke."
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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown
%
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made
sense from things she found in gift shops.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
%
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered.  I myself would
say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde
%
If I can't dance, then I won't join your revolution
- Emma Goldman
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ON WORK:
"Even though everybody in the collective is busy as hell -- is 'working' all the time, it
isn't work because it's play. Work which is play is not 'capital W' Work, so we should have
a different term for it. 'Zero work' doesn't mean no activity -- although it certainly
means that laziness will be considered as a positive value -- but it doesn't mean no
activity." 
- Hakim Bey
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ON COPS:
"The pigs aren't interested in sentencing you anymore, because they can ruin you just by
charging you with a crime. If you get off, it's no skin off there teeth, but you've spent
all your money and time, and been ruined, fired from your job, your neighbours won't talk
to you, and they're burning crosses on your lawn." 
- Hakim Bey
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"I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government 
enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who 
live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place 
of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, 
under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves &
sheep. I do not exaggerate."
 - Thomas Jefferson
    philosopher, statesman, slave-boffer
%
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten 
at second-hand, and without examination." 
- Mark Twain
%
"[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and 
upwards of a thousand lies." 
- Mark Twain
%
"First feign disorder, then crush your enemy." 
- Sun Tzu (Art of War)
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"A Johnson honors his obligations. His word is good and he is a good man to do business 
with. A Johnson minds his own business. He is not a snoopy, self-righteous, 
trouble-making person. A Johnson will give help when help is needed. He will not
stand by while someone is drowning or trapped under a burning car. 

Yes, this world would be a pretty easy and pleasant place to live in if everybody could 
just mind his own business and let others do the same. But a wise old black faggot said 
to me years ago: 'Some people are shits, darling.' I was never able to forget it.... 
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own 
business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox 
virus has... "
- William S. Burroughs (And in The Place of Dead Roads)
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"The police couldn't put you into their polarization structure. They know how to deal 
with real criminals, but somebody who puts eggplants on sticks - you're making a
mockery of their social order, and that's worse than what most criminals are 
capable of doing." 
- Andrea Juno 
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"Culture jammers draw upon the facts of our society, this cacophony of fragmentary 
media images, to describe things as they are.  But I think at the heart of their 
reassemblings is the hope that there could be another kind of world, a world where 
rather than incoherence there could be coherence, rather than a devaluation of the 
human in favor of the commodity there could be an understanding of the commodity 
in the service of the human." 
- Prof. Stuart Ewen 
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...In order to get on and improve the relations between the masses and the
 leaders, we must keep the valve of self-criticism open, we must enable the
 soviet men to scold their leaders and criticize their failures, so that the
 leaders do not become presumptuous and the masses do not leave the leaders.
--Josif Stalin, 1923
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"The U.S. calls its gunship The Apache. Is this different than if the Germans named theirs 
the Jew or the Gypsy?" 
- Anonymous dissident
%
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a
necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one." 
- Thomas Paine
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"A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men." 
- Thomas Paine
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." 
- Thomas Paine
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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances
that no human wisdom can calculate its end. It has but one thing certain and that is to
increase taxes." 
- Thomas Paine
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"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."
-Adolf Hitler 
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An awareness of powerlessness is surely as old as its reality.
The slaves and peasants of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia must have known that 
they were powerless, but such awareness more often results in resignation than 
revolution. Bookchin cannot explain why powerless people sometimes revolt but 
usually don't.  
- bob black
%
"...there ought to be limits to freedom." 
- Governor George W. Bush 
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"'I voted against the constitution because it was a constitution!' said the great
French political philosopher, Pierre Joseph Proudhon during the French Revolution
of 1848 when he was asked why he had been among the tiny minority of the
National Assembly voting against proposals for a constitution. His attitude was not
based merely on his libertarian view that society should be allowed to develop its
institutions empirically and organically, rather than by formal fiat. He also pointed
out that in a constitution which divided powers, the tendency would always be for the
executive, the most rigid, centralist and power-oriented branch of government, to
take control. His point was well taken, and history has given it justification in the
centuries since the American states adopted their own pioneer constitution. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, the president of France elected under the constitution that
Proudhon rejected, made himself first a dictator and then an emperor. And with only
brief intervals, the president of the United States has represented all that is
reactionary and overbearing in American life and in the American attitude towards
the world in general. I need hardly expand on the offences against basic human
rights that have taken place under the apparently benign constitutions of the Soviet
Union in the past, or the People's Republic of China in the present."
- George Woodcock 
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"It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve
it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the
spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."
-Albert Einstein 
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"How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I
answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant
recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's
government also."
- Henry David Thoreau 
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"Samuel Johnson's saying that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels has some
truth in it, but not nearly enough. Patriotism, in truth, is the great nursery of
scoundrels, and its annual output is probably greater than that of even religion. Its
chief glories are the demagogue, the military bully, and the spreaders of libels and
false history. Its philosophy rests firmly on the doctrine that the end justifies the
means -- that any blow, whether above or below the belt, is fair against dissenters
from its wholesale denial of plain facts."
-H.L. Mencken; Minority Report
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"Anarchists ... are one of the few political forces to be taken seriously in the USSR."
- Anatoly Lukyanov, president of the Supreme Soviet, 1991.
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"In every country in the world a huge tribe of party hacks and sleek little professors are 
busy 'proving' that Socialism means no more than a planned state-capitalism with the 
grab-motive left intact. But fortunately there also exists a vision of socialism quite 
different from this. The thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and make them 
willing to risk their skins for it, the 'mystique' of Socialism, is the idea of equality; to 
the vast majority of people Socialism means a classless society, or it means nothing at all."
- George Orwell
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"Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many." 
- Max Stirner
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"Just as man seeks justice in equality, society seeks order in anarchy."
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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"Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant. I declare him my enemy."
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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"My conscience is mine, my justice is mine, and my freedom is a sovereign freedom."
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
%
"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, 
closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; 
all by creatures that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... To be governed means 
that at every move, operation, or transaction one is noted, registered, entered in a census, 
taxed, stamped, priced, assessed, patented, licensed, authorized, recommended, admonished, 
prevented, reformed, set right, corrected. Government means to be subjected to tribute, 
trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, pressured, mystified, robbed; all in the 
name of public utility and the general good. Then, at the first sign of resistance or word of 
complaint, one is repressed, fined, despised, vexed, pursued, hustled, beaten up, garroted,
imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged, sentenced, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, 
and to cap all, ridiculed, mocked, outraged and dishonored. That is government, that is its 
justice and its morality!"
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
%
"Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human 
activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions 
which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is 
... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the 
principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.
The choice lies with you!
- Peter Kropotkin
%
"All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them 
in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the 
production of the world's wealth... All is for all!"
- Peter Kropotkin
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"But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and 
struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that 
world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the 
wheat and had not bread enough for their children?"
- Peter Kropotkin
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"In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction 
should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be 
worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; 
the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow."
- Peter Kropotkin
%
"Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. 
Lenin has none."
- Peter Kropotkin
%
"Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend 
to hold."
- Peter Kropotkin
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"Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of 
animal life as mutual struggle."
- Peter Kropotkin
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"The two great movements of our century --towards Liberty of the individual and social 
co-operation of the whole community--are summed up in Anarchist-Communism."
- Peter Kropotkin
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"[U]nless Socialists are prepared openly and avowedly to profess that the satisfaction of the 
needs of each individual must be their very first aim; unless they have prepared public opinion 
to establish itself firmly at this standpoint, the people in their next attempt to free themselves 
will once more suffer a defeat."
- Peter Kropotkin
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"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
- Emma Goldman
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"To me anarchism was not a mere theory for a distant future; it was a living influence to free 
us from inhibitions, internal no less than external, and from the destructive barriers that 
separate man from man."
- Emma Goldman
%
"And you, are you so forgetful of your past, is there no echo in your soul of your poets' songs, 
your dreamers' dreams, your rebels' calls?"
- Emma Goldman
%
"As to the great mass of working girls and women, how much independence is gained if the 
narrowness and lack of freedom of the home is exchanged for the narrowness and lack of 
freedom of the factory, sweatshop, department store, or office."
- Emma Goldman
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"[I]f education should mean anything at all, it must insist on the free growth and development 
of the innate forces and tendencies of the child. In this way alone can we hope for the free 
individual and eventually also for a free community, which shall make interference and coercion 
of human growth impossible."
- Emma Goldman
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"[Anarchism is the] philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made 
law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and 
harmful, as well as unnecessary,"
- Emma Goldman
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private 
judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
- William Godwin
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"Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be 
strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him."
- William Godwin
%
"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and 
domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can 
be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human 
freedom."
- Noam Chomsky
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"The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, 
namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce 
and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical 
structures, possibly none at all."
- Noam Chomsky
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"Democracy requires dissolution of private power. As long as there is private control over the 
economic system, talk about democracy is a joke. You can't even talk about democracy until you 
have democratic control of industry, commerce, banking, everything..."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"If the left is understood to include 'Bolshevism,' then I would flatly dissociate myself from 
the left. Lenin was one of the greatest enemies of socialism, in my opinion, for reasons I've 
discussed."
- Noam Chomsky
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The 'conservatives' who are calling for an end to school lunches for hungry children are also 
demanding an increase in the budget for the Pentagon, which was established in the late 1940s 
in its current form because - as the business press was kind enough to tell us - high tech 
industry cannot survive in a "pure, competitive, unsubsidized, 'free enterprise' economy," and 
the government must be its "saviour."
- Noam Chomsky
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"wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, 
lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle 
for material gain, and so on."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"People who believe in a better way of life know that the way we live now is criminal. Denial 
of freedoms, death by starvation and exploitation, denigration of peopleÕs capabilities 
everywhere. If you see that these outcomes are socially produced, then you understand that 
every person who dies as a result was effectively murdered. Once you accept the
possibility of attaining a humanist alternative, you have to be a terrible hypocrite, coward 
or cynic to live passively with the contrast beteween what is and what could be."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power 
can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, 
organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time 
and doing it better the next time."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just 
the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises 
the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change 
-- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, 
despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have 
to be hanged."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to 
understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in 
the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to 
which we are subjected and which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting
instruments."
- Noam Chomsky
%
"We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice,
and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality."
- Mikhail Bakunin
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"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
- Mikhail Bakunin
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. 
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
- Mikhail Bakunin
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"Man is only truly free only among equally free men."
- Mikhail Bakunin
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"The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. The
chains of tormented mankind are made out of red tape."
- Franz Kafka
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"I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe..."
- Oscar Wilde
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"If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power  
as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, 
then the last state of man will be worse than the first."
- Oscar Wilde
%
"The form of government which is most suitable to the artist is no government at all."
- Oscar Wilde
%
On Authority: "It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised." 
and "there is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad..."
- Oscar Wilde
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Government and Social Democracy is: "the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
- Oscar Wilde
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"All modes of government are wrong. They are unscientific, because they seek to alter the 
natural environment of man; they are immoral because, by interfering with the individual, 
they produce the most aggresive forms of egotism; they are ignorant, because they try to 
spread education; they are self-destructive, because they engender anarchy."
- Oscar Wilde
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out 
the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks 
out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
- Oscar Wilde
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through 
disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
- Oscar Wilde
%
 "Nietzsche says somewhere that the free spirit will not agitate for the rules to be dropped or 
 even reformed, since it is only by breaking the rules that he realizes his will to power. One 
 must prove (to oneself if no one else) an ability to overcome the rules of the herd, to make 
 one's own law & yet not fall prey to the rancor & resentment of inferior souls which define 
 law & custom in ANY society. One needs, in effect, an individual equivalent of war in order 
 to achieve the becoming of the free spirit--one needs an inert stupidity against which to
 measure one's own movement & intelligence."
- Hakim Bey
%
"...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a
holiday"
- Fred Nietzsche
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"When I see an actual flesh and blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the
police, I do not have to say which side I am on."
- George Orwell
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"And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, 
freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive 
characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous 
heart and an open mind..."
- Errico Malatesta
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"For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not 
only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, 
not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles..."
- Errico Malatesta
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"Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we 
walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always." 
- Errico Malatesta
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"Our destiny is to arrive at that state of ideal perfection where nations no longer have any 
need to be under the tutelage of a government or any other nation. It is the absence of 
government; it is anarchy, the highest expression of order."
- Lucy Parsons
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"Let reason rule the man and he dares not trespass against his fellow creatures, but will do 
as he would be done unto, For Reason tells him is thy neighbour hungry and naked today, do 
thou feed and clothe him, it may be thy case tomorrow and then he will be ready to help thee."
- Gerrard Winstanley
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"Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, 
parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing 
lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects 
are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty."
- Gerrard Winstanley
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"For surely this particular property of mine and thine hath brought in all misery upon people. 
For first, it hath occasioned people to steal one from another. Secondly, it hath made laws to 
hang those that did steal. It tempts people to do an evil action and then kills them for doing it. 
Let all judge if this not be a great devil."
- Gerrard Winstanley
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"When this universal law of equity rises up in every man and woman, then none shall lay claim 
to any creature and say, This is mine, and that is yours. This is my work, that is yours. But 
everyone shall put their hands to till the earth and bring up cattle, and the blessing of the 
earth shall be common to all; when a man hath need of any corn or cattle, take from the next 
store-house he meets with. There shall be no buying and selling, no fairs or markets, but the 
whole earth shall be the common treasury for every man, for the earth is the Lord's... 
"When a man hath eat, and drink, and clothes, he hath enough. And all shall cheerfully put to 
their hands to make these things that are needful, one helping another. There shall be none lords 
over others, but everyone shall be a lord of himself, subject to the law of righteousness, reason 
and equity, which shall dwell and rule in him, which is the Lord."
- Gerrard Winstanley
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"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source 
of the evil. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through 
the establishment of a socialist economy..."
- Albert Einstein, Physicist, Why Socialism?, Monthly Review, New York, May 1949
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"I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the 
other shore."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"All that serves labor serves the nation, all that harms is treason.
If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor,he is a liar. 
If a man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. 
There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the other." 
- Abraham Lincoln 
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. 
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. 
Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
- Abraham Lincoln 
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"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one 
uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."
- Abraham Lincoln 
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble 
for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption 
in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its 
reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few 
hands and the Republic is destroyed."  
- Abraham Lincoln 
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"I thank God that we have a system of labor where there can be a strike." 
--Abraham Lincoln 
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the Manifesto from The Masses Magazine (published from 1911 to 1917) : 
"A Revolutionary and not a Reform Magazine; A Magazine with a Sense of Humor 
and no Respect for the Respectable; Frank, Arrogant, Impertinent, searching for 
the True Causes; A Magazine directed Against Rigidity and Dogma wherever it is Found."
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"Our first work must be the annihilation of everything that exists."
- MIKHAIL BAKUNIN, 1842 
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"Rich men have no right to their property, for they are not rich because 
they work a lot but because a lot of people work for them; and poor men 
have a right to rich men's property, for they are poor not because they work 
little but because they work for others. Indeed poor people almost always work 
long hours at duller jobs in worse conditions than rich people. No one ever 
became rich or remained rich through his own labour, only by exploiting 
the labour of others. "
-NICHOLAS WALTER, ABOUT ANARCHISM 
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"Winters cannot seem to imagine that it is possible for a counter-culture 
"to turn the system's images against it," to detourne ("divert") them, as 
the Situationists used to say. Rather he supposes that only the opposite is possible,
recuperation - to again employ Situationist terminology -- the system's "recovery" 
or cooptation of insurgent tendencies"
-bob black, iww paper
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Picasso is summoned by the Nazi commandant of Paris who shows him a reproduction 
of his famous painting of the city of Guernica after its destruction by German bombers 
in the Spanish Civil War.
"Did you do that?" the commandant asks the artist in a menacing tone.
"No," replies Picasso, "You did." 
- from 'No Laughing Matter: A Collection of Political Jokes,' by Itzhak Galnoor and Steven Lukes
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom
must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Tom Paine
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"Élegislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing propertyÉ Another means 
of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain 
point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise.
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that 
the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right." 
-- Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to James Madison), 1785
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The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. 
This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, 
or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking 
political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured 
in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some 
central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because 
they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of 
swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. 
-George Orwell
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"First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. 
Then they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. 
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. 
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. 
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." 
--Pastor Martin Nermoeller, who spent over eight years in a Nazi concentration camp. 
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate 
agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. 
They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean 
without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --
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I Won't Vote.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has 
so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil 
party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say....

[H]ow does Stevenson differ from Eisenhower? He uses better English than Dulles, thank God! 
He has a sly humor, where Eisenhower has none. 
Beyond this Stevenson stands on the race question in the South not far from where his 
godfather Adlai stood sixty-three years ago, which reconciles him to the South. 
He has no clear policy on war or preparation for war; on water and flood control; 
on reduction of taxation; on the welfare state....

I have no advice for others in this election. 
Are you voting Democratic? Well and good; all I ask is why? 
Are you voting for Eisenhower and his smooth team of bright ghost writers? Again, why? 
Will your helpless vote either way support or restore democracy to America?

--W.E.B. Du Bois, October 20, 1956
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. 
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
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Only the shallow know themselves.  
-Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young 
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The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. 
-Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance 
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.  
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  
-Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband 
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
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No gentleman ever takes exercise.
-Oscar Wilde
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Industry is the root of all ugliness.
-Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
-Oscar Wilde
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In this world there are only two tragedies. 
One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
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Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.  
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 
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Never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people who can't get into it do that. 
-Oscar Wilde, In Conversation 
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. 
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our own personalities.   
-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist 
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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
-Oscar Wilde
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
-Oscar Wilde
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Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. 
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. 
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. 
From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once 
surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. 
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. 
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
-Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 
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To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.  
-Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. 
That is all.  
-Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 
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"Life is far to important to be taken seriously."
-Oscar Wilde
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence 
without civilization in between."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
-Oscar Wilde
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. 
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."
-Oscar Wilde
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" The Afghan Mujaheddin are the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers of America "
-Ronald Reagan
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with
the rich is uselessness.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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keeping government honest and hence our freedoms intact requires eternal vigilance.
-Ben Franklin
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ÒWar is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.Ó
-Ben Franklin
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 "It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis 
 approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. 
 As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in 
 high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong 
 it's reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in 
 a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for 
 the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."  
 - Abraham Lincoln in a letter to William F. Elkins, Nov. 21st, 1864
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Top 10 Things You Can Say to a White Person
From the Red Road Newsletter 

10. How much white are you?
9. I'm part white myself, you know.
8. I learned all your people's ways in the Boy Scouts (Order of the Bullet).
7. My great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded white-American princess.
6. Funny, you don't look white.
5. Where's your powdered wig and knickers?
4. Do you live in a covered wagon?
3. What's the meaning behind the square dance?
2. What's your feeling about river-boat casinos? Do they really help your people, 
or are they just a short-term fix?
1. Oh wow, I really love your hair! Can I touch it?
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"A friend is a second self."
-Aristotle
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: 
chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
-Aristotle
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"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
-Aristotle
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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
-Aristotle
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"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
-Aristotle
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle
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"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not 
bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
-Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle
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"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
-Edward De Bono
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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
-Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
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"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, 
than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
-Edward De Bono
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"El Diablo nunca se ve la Cola"
(The devil is never aware of the presence of its tail)
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"We do not require 'Revolutionary' institutions. 'After the Revolution' we would still 
continue to drift, to evade the instant sclerosis of a politics of revenge, and instead 
seek out the excessive, the strangeÑwhich for us has become the sole possible norm. 
If we join or support certain 'revolutionary' movements now, we'd certainly be the first 
to betray them if they 'came to power'."
-Hakim Bey, "Ontological Anarchy in a Nutshell"
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"There's a fatal flaw built into our economic system... Profits - the "private tax" 
companies put on their workers - need to come from somewhere.
    If you own a widget factory (if I may sound like a dull business professor) and the 
factory can produce 1,000 widgets a day, and you can sell each widget for $10, that  
means your workers produce $10,000 worth of widgets every day. However, you have 
overhead. Even if you own the building and don't have to pay taxes or utilities, and 
it costs you nothing to market and distribute your widgets, you still need to pay the 
workers. If 10 workers made that $10,000 for you, are you going to pay each of them 
a thousand dollars? No, because you would have no profit. You need to pay them less than 
the value of what they are producing. Say you pay them $200 a day - which means they are 
paying you $800 to boss them around. That means your workforce has a sum total of 
$2,000 at the end of the day to spend, and you have $10,000 worth of product to sell.
             See the problem?  Who is going to buy all of those widgets?
The obvious answer would seem to be, "people other than the widget makers." 
 The problem is that pretty much every company in our society is structured this way, so 
 the sum total of the output of every factory in the country far exceeds the wages being 
 paid out. Since workers buy things with their wages, there will always be less money to buy 
 stuff than there is stuff to buy. Eventually the unsold stuff piles up and you don't need any 
 more workers to produce things because you're still trying to sell off all the widgets or cars 
 or VCRs or sneakers filling your warehouse. But when you lay off the workers, you further 
 reduce the amount of money out there to buy your stuff. 

 This is why Capitalist economies continually go through cycles of boom and bust, and why 
 you can expect to go through a recession and possibly lose your job every few years.
 There is no way around this basic problem."
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"Capitalism, which claims to produce Order by means of the reproduction of desire, in 
fact originates in the production of scarcity, and can only reproduce itself in unfulfillment, negation, and alienation. As the Spectacle disintegrates (like a malfunctioning VR program) 
it reveals the fleshless bones of the Commodity. Like those tranced travelers in Irish 
fairy tales who visit the Otherworld and seem to dine on supernatural delicacies, we wake 
in a bleary dawn with ashes in our mouths."
-Hakim Bey, "Ontological Anarchy in a Nutshell"
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 "We cannot solve the significant problems we face with the same level of thinking 
 that created them" 
 - Albert Einstein
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 "Socialism itself will be of value simply because it will lead to Individualism...  
 It is only in voluntary associations that man is fine...  
 All modes of government are failures." 
- Oscar Wilde
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 "All the old ideologies are conservative because they believe in work. Some of them, 
 like Marxism and most brands of anarchism, believe in work all the more fiercely 
 because they believe in so little else." 
 -Bob Black, Abolition of Work
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"Absolutism is the total acceptance or rejection of all components of particular 
ideologies, spectacles and reifications. An absolutist cannot see any other choice 
than complete acceptance or complete rejection ... The absolutist wanders along 
the shelves of the ideological supermarket looking for the ideal commodity, and 
then buys it -- lock, stock and barrel. but the ideological supermarket -- like any 
supermarket -- is fit only for looting. It is more productive for us if we can move 
along the shelves, rip open the packets, take out what looks authentic and useful, 
and dump the rest." 
- Revolutionary Self-Theory
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"Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does not satisfy 
your need for indolence & spiritual beauty." 
-Hakim Bey, Poetic Terrorism
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"There is only one way to find out if a man is honest...ask him. If he says 'yes', 
you know he is crooked."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. 
If you can fake those, you've got it made."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Look, if you don't like my parties, you can leave in a huff. If that's too  soon, 
leave in a minute and a huff. If you can't find that, you can leave in  a taxi."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, 
and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves? Answer me that!
No, of course not. But what makes wage slaves? Wages!"
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Whatever it is, I'm against it."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that."
-Comrade Brother "Groucho" Marx
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"Anyone  who fights with monsters should make sure that he does not in the process 
become  a monster himself. And when you look for a long time into an abyss, the abyss  
also looks into you."
-Nietzsche
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"One day, as Emma Goldman relates in her autobiography, the great American critic and 
essayist, James Huneker, being present at a party of one of their young friends were 
discussing Nietzsche, Emma also took part in this conversation, expressing her enthusiasm 
over Nietzsche's work. Huneker was quite surprised exclaiming: 
     'I did not know you were in anything outside of propaganda.' 
Whereas Emma replied: 'That is because you don't know anything about Anarchism, else you 
would understand that it embraces every phase of life and effort and that it undermines 
the old, outlived values . . .' 
Then, her friend asserted: 'That he was an anarchist because he was an artist: 
all creative people must be anarchists, he held, because they need scope and freedom 
for their expression.' Huneker insisted that art has nothing to do with any ism. 'Nietzsche 
himself is the proof of it' he argued: 'he is an aristocrat, his ideal is the superman because 
he has no sympathy with or faith with the common herd. 'Then Emma Goldman pointed out: 
'that Nietzsche was not a social theorist, but a poet, a rebel, and innovator. His aristocracy 
was neither of birth nor of purse; it was the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist' and all true Anarchists were aristocrats.'"
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"Ultimately  one loves one's desires and not the objects one desires."
-Nietzsche
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"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." -Oscar Wilde
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. 
Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed 
the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, 
and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . Our problem is 
that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and 
starvation and stupidity and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people 
are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the 
grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
--Howard Zinn, Failure to Quit
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"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. 
An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking 
of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
-Gandhi
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"The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to 
the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel."
--Martin Luther
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"When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint, but when I ask why people should 
be hungry, they call me a communist."
-Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara
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"Oh Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; 
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; 
help us to drown out the thunder of guns with the shrieks of their wounded, 
writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; 
help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander un-befriended 
the wastes of their desolated land. We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is 
the Source of Love. Amen."
--Mark Twain
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"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator; 
by defending myself against the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord."
--Adolf Hitler

"God told me to smite Osama bin Ladin, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told 
me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I invaded Iraq. Now he wants me to work on 
the Middle East problem..."
--U S President George W. Bush
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"Why, of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm 
want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back 
to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither 
in Russia, nor England, nor for that matter, Germany. That is understood, but 
after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is 
always a simpler matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, 
or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice 
or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. 
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and 
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country 
to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Herman Goering. Long time Nazi, Reichmarshall, and heir-apparent to Hitler. 
Statement made while imprisoned at Nuremberg after WWII.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, 
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who 
are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is 
spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of 
its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud 
of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where
 the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
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"After the first glass you see things as you wish they were,
After the second, you see things as they are not.
Finally you see things as they really are - and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
- Oscar Wilde
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"And this particular propriety [property] of mine and thine that brought in all misery 
upon people. For first it hath occasioned people to steal from one another. 
Secondly it hath made laws to hang those that did steal. It tempts people to do an 
evil action and then kills them for doing it." 
- Gerard Winstanley [The New Law of Righteousness]
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"In the beginning of time the great creator Reason made the earth to be a 
common treasury .Ê.Ê. not one word was spoken in the beginning that 
one branch of mankind should rule over another." 
- Gerard Winstanley [The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649]
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".Ê.Ê.Êthe power of inclosing Land and owning Propriety was brought into the 
Creation by your ancestors by the Sword which first did murther their fellow-
creatures men and after plunder or steal away their land." 
- Gerard Winstanley [A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England]
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"No man can be rich, but he must be rich, either by his own labors, or the labors 
of other men helping him: If a man have no help from his neighbor, he shall never 
gather an Estate of hundreds and thousands a year: If other men help him to work, 
then are those Riches his Neighbors, as well as his own, for they be the fruit of 
other mens labors as well as his own. But all rich men live at ease, feeding and 
clothing themselves by the labor of other men and not by their own; which is their 
shame and not their Nobility: for it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive. 
But rich men receive all they have from the laborers hand, and what they give, 
they give way other mens labors not their own." 
- Gerard Winstanley [The Law of Freedom in a Platform or True Magistracy Restored]
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".Ê.Ê.Êif once landlords, then they rise to be Justices, Rulers and State Governours 
as experience shewes." 
- Gerard Winstanley [The True Levellers Standard Advanced]
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".Ê.Ê.Êthe power of the murdering and theeving sword formerly as well as now of 
late years hath set up a government and maintains that government; for what 
are prisons and putting others to death, but the power of the Sword to enforce 
people to that Government which was got by Conquest and sword and cannot 
stand of itself but by the same murdering power." 
- Gerard Winstanley [A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England]
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"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more 
national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles 
and aims as two peas in the same pod." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government" - Thomas Jefferson (letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813)
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it 
is the rule." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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"These students are going to find out what law and order is all about." 
--Robert Canterbury, Commanding General of the Ohio State National Guard, 
minutes before his troops fired on students at Kent State, 1970
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"The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must 
therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious." 
--Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
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"Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to 
discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." --Lucy Parsons
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"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens 
don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the state." --Heinrich Himmler
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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. 
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take 
down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs 
out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."
- Frank Zappa, 1977
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, 
unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha
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"The more restrictions and prohibitions in the world, the poorer people get." 
-- Lao Tzu
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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." 
- Tacitus, Roman historian
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"Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
--George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
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"Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become 
important in the eyes of more trivial men." --George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
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"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." 
--Bill Clinton, 1993.
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"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people." 
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its 
own shame." -- Oscar Wilde
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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Vladimir Lenin
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." 
- George Orwell
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, 
we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
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"To disagree with three-fourths of the public is one of the first 
requisites of sanity." - Oscar Wilde
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"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." - Samuel Johnson
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries 
because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain 
of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe 
that heaven is hell Ñ and hell heaven. 
The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."
- Adolf Hitler
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"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction 
and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, 
all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."
-Adolf Hitler
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"I wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally 
won out over it." 
- James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey (1950)
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power 
to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its 
essence is fascism - ... ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any 
controlling private power. "
-  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"The law says your employer does not steal anything from you, because it is done with 
your consent. You have agreed to work for your boss for certain pay, he to have all that 
you produce. Because you consented to it, the law says that he does not steal anything 
from you.
But did you really consent?
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. 
You "consent" all right [...]
Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the 
highwayman's gun."
- Alexander Berkman, What is Communist Anarchism?, 1929
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"Juridically they are both equal [the worker and capitalist]; but economically the worker 
is the serf of the capitalist [...] thereby the worker sells his person and his liberty for 
a given time. The worker is in the position of a serf because this terrible threat of 
starvation which daily hangs over his head and over his family, will force him to accept 
any conditions imposed by the gainful calculations of the capitalist, the industrialist, 
the employer [...] The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he 
the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is 
driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer. 
Thus the worker's liberty [...] is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its 
possible realisation, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. 
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying 
succession of terms of serfdom -- voluntary from the juridical point of view but 
compulsory from an economic sense -- broken up by momentarily brief interludes 
of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery."
- Mikhail Bakunin
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"There can be no freedom where the modes of production and consumption are 
decided on any grounds other than a particular society's needs and resources."
- Giovanni Baldelli
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"It is clear that your interests as a worker are different from the interests of your 
capitalistic masters [...] The better wages the boss pays you, the less profit he 
makes out of you. It does not require great philosophy to understand that."
- Alexander Berkman, What is Communist Anarchism?, 1929
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Incorporation, v. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, 
in order that they may be no longer responsible for their actions. A, B and C are a 
corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in 
the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, 
who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are 
blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, 
but right when praising. Incorporation is somewhat like the ring of Gyges: it bestows the 
blessing of invisibility - comfortable to knaves. The scoundrel who invented incorporation 
is dead - he has disincorporated.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Labour, v. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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"1993 had been a banner year for business with "dazzling" profits for the Fortune 
500 despite stagnant sales growth. 1994 was a great improvement, yielding 
"surging profits" that were "overflowing the coffers of Corporate America," 
Business Week exulted even before the grand news about the final quarter was in. 
Meanwhile median wages and work conditions continued their steady decline. 
The number of children under 6 living in poverty reached a record high of 6 million, 
26 percent of that age group, an increase of 1 million from 1987 to 1992 and almost 
double the figures for 1972 when the rollback crusade was in its early stages."
- Noam Chomsky, "Rollback," Z Magazine, Jan.-Apr. 1995
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"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system."
- Dorothy Day
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"Capitalism has made all social relationships commodity relationships. The very 
structure of our daily lives is based on commodity relationships. Society consumed 
as a whole - the ensemble of social relationships and structures is the central product 
of the commodity economy."
- Carol Ehrlich
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"Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, 
beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton 
around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no 
talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a 
dull and hideous existence - too weak to live, too cowardly to die. Strange to say, there 
are people who extol this deadening method of centralized production as the proudest achievement of our age. They fail utterly to realize that if we are to continue in machine subserviency, our slavery is more complete than was our bondage to the King. They do not 
want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere."
- Emma Goldman
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"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will."
- Alexander Hamilton
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"[Capitalism's] aim is purely and simply to have produced a greater quantity of value, 
in the form of money, by the end of the cycle than it had at the beginning. This means 
that in the dual character of the commodity [exchange-value and use-value] it is already 
possible to discern capitalism's most fundamental trait, namely, the necessity for the 
system to be in a permanent state of crisis."
- Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord, University of California Press (1999), California, 1993: 16
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Capitalism, n. The astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most 
wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- John Maynard Keynes
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."
- Karl Marx
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which 
are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of 
tyranny over the unfortunate."
- Bertrand Russell
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"The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a 
few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making 
a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"The social friction set up by inequality of income is intense: society is like a machine 
designed to work smoothly with the oil of equality, into the bearings of which some 
malignant demon keeps pouring the sand of inequality. If it were not for the big pools 
of equality that exist at different levels, the machine would not work at all. As it is, 
the seizings-up, the smashings, the stoppages, the explosions, never cease [...] 
And to outface this miserable condition we bleat once a year about peace on earth 
and good-will to men: that is, among persons to whom we have distributed incomes 
ranging from a starvation dole to several thousands a day, piously exhorting the 
recipients to love one-another. Have you any patience with it? I have none."
- George Bernard Shaw (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co.), The 
Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928
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Free Enterprise, n. A system in which a few are born with millions in the bank, most are 
born with nothing, and all compete to accumulate wealth. If those born with nothing fail, 
it is due to their personality defects.
- Robert Tefton
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"[...] what makes capitalist exploitation so repulsive is the fact that it occurs between 
'equals.'"
- Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Left Bank Books/Rebel Press (1994), London, 1967: 121
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"Industry is the root of all ugliness."
- Oscar Wilde
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"A good many of the paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic 
appeal to the mood of the lower classes at a time when they were in bad straits and were sympathetic to radical and even socialist slogans. Point 11, for example, demanded 
abolition of incomes unearned by work; Point 12, the nationalization of trusts; 
Point 13, the sharing with the state of profits from large industry; Point 14, 
the abolishing of land rents and speculation in land. Point 18 demanded the death 
penalty for traitors, usurers and profiteers, and Point 16, calling for the maintenance 
of "a sound middle class," insisted on the communalization of department stores and 
their lease at cheap rates to small traders. These demands had been put in at the 
insistence of Drexler and Feder, who apparently believed in the "socialism" of 
National Socialism. They were the ideas which Hitler was to find embarassing when 
the big industrialists and landlords began to pour money into the party coffers, and 
of course nothing was ever done about them."
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 68
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"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both." 
- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by 
the corrupt few."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists 
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the 
unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may 
not be the same."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"A First Cause is a contradiction in terms, because in causation every cause must 
have a cause; and therefore there can no more be a First Cause than a first inch in a 
circle. If you once admit a cause that is uncaused, you give up causation altogether. 
And if you do that, you may as well say that everything makes itself. 
- George Bernard Shaw
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"It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
- Thomas Paine
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the 
rulers as useful."  - Seneca
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large 
numbers and to the sound of trumpets."  - Voltaire
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"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world 
for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.  
There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
- Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is 
not going to be a success."  -Sigmund Freud
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"How happy will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock!"
- Psalms 137:9
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the 
man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior 
to authority."
- Lord Acton
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- Lord Acton, 1887
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. 
Every class is unfit to govern."
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
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"[hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own 
dung, and drink their own piss with you?"
- II Kings 18:27 
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"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me 
with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.'"
- Jesus Christ, Mark 7:6
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, 
and for a pretense, make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one 
proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."
- Jesus Christ, Matthew 23: 14-15
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious 
conviction."   - Blaise Pascal
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears 
the people, there is liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been 
given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
-Albert Einstein
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"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person 
should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees 
with your own reason and your own common sense."
- Buddha
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"There in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionist and 
rebel men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, 
may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in 
the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are 
cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those 
who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and 
where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to 
oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
- Frederick Douglas
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"The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened and the 
greater is the security of the State."
- Frederick Douglas, Nov 17, 1864
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, 
it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, 
until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where 
everyone lives in fear."
- Harry Truman
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"There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice . . . It justifies and holds 
together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error 
in the world."
- H. G. Wells
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on 
what to have for dinner."
- James Bovard
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"Well, I've wrestled with reality for over thirty five years, doctor, and I'm happy 
to state I finally won out over it."
- Jimmy Stewart, in "Harvey"
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard 
those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Nietzsche
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"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without 
civilization in between."
- Oscar Wilde
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one 
wishes to live."
- Oscar Wilde
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. 
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and 
through rebellion."
- Oscar Wilde
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to 
stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is 
morally treasonable to the American public."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1912
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"What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he 
doesn't have enough money to buy a hamburger?"
"I am deeply concerned that we're trying to integrate ourselves into a burning house."
- Martin Luther King
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under 
bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- Anatole France
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"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other 
Englishman hate or despise him."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than 
the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity 
is a cheap and dangerous quality."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in 
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the 
unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have 
not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, 
the pig likes it."
- George Bernard Shaw 
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"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."
- H. L. Mencken
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, 
common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for 
public office."
- H. L. Mencken
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
- H. L. Mencken
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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." - H. L. Mencken
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..."the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom respectable. 
No virtuous man--that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense--has ever painted a picture 
worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading"...
- H. L. Mencken
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"One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing." - H. L. Mencken
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."
- H. L. Mencken
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"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere 
near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many 
humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."
- H. L. Mencken
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove 
that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right... 
The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an 
intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between 
two gangs of frauds."
- H. L. Mencken
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"Truth has had to be fought for every step of the way, almost everything else dear to 
our hearts, on which our love and our trust in life depend, has had to be sacrificed to it. 
Greatness of soul is needed for it, the service of truth is the hardest service.--For what 
does it mean to be honest in intellectual things? That one is stern towards one's heart, 
that one despises "fine feelings", that one makes every Yes and No a question of 
conscience!"
- Nietzsche
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"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: 
in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to people to be fixed, 
canonical and binding. Truths are illusions we have forgotten are illusions; they are 
metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, 
coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer 
as coins."
- Nietzsche
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"To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth."
- William S. Burroughs
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"One of the things my father taught me was disrespect for the respectable."
-Richard Feynman
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"Goebbels said that what you want in a media system - he meant the Nazi media system - is to present the ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity."
- NYU media professor Mark Crispin Miller
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"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed 
thousands more."
- Harriet Tubman
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