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- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
- Judge John Kane, US District Court
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
- Herbert Simon, economist
- When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
- Learned Hand, jurist
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