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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.: Brother Theodore
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.: Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.: John R. Searle, MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death: H.H. Munro (Saki)
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...: Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
The only completely consistent people are the dead.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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