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- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
- Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
- Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
- Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
- In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), "On Liberty", 1859
- Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), "Through the Looking Glass"
- No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
- Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
- All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
- Adam Richardson
- The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
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