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- 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse-Five
- All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
- It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
- No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
- We want God to come and save us. But he won’t. God doesn’t stop levees from failing, he doesn’t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn’t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05
- The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05
- He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732
- They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
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