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- Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
- Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
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