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- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
- Noam Chomsky (1928 - )
- I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
- Jay Gould (1836 - 1892)
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13
- I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
- Wil Wheaton, weblog, 03-10-04
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