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- We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Alan Bennett, Getting On (1972)
- Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965
- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth!
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain!
Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
- Clifford Stoll
- He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
- Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940), Anarchism (1910)
- Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), The Corsair (1814)
- We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), Great Expectations
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