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In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.: Monty Python
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.: Reggie Jackson
It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insa- tiable, implacable.: David Brin _The Postman_
We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion.: Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory"
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), "A Modest Proposal"
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.": Stephen Crane
People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.: Johathan Miller

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