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- Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
- From the I Ching
- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- Anonymous
- If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!
- Anonymous
- All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
- George Santiano
- The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.
- John Gilmore
- I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!
- Anonymous
- To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
- Erik Nupponen
- And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700), Imitation of Horace
- Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. - Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Night Thoughts
- All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
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