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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.: Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.: John R. Searle, MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.: Unknown Russian
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 55 BC
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death: H.H. Munro (Saki)
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...: Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
The only completely consistent people are the dead.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

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