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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)
- The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
- Judge John Kane, US District Court
- We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
- The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
- Cole's axiom
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
- 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
- I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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