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| #3631 | | "Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue."
-- Peter Neumann, about usenet
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| #3632 | | "We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea -- organic law rather than naked
power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation."
-- Supreme Court Justice Potter Steart
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| #3633 | | "What man has done, man can aspire to do."
-- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
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| #3634 | | "Well, it don't make the sun shine, but at least it don't deepen the shit."
-- Straiter Empy, in _Riddley_Walker_ by Russell Hoban
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| #3635 | | "If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others."
-- the Dalai Lama
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| #3636 | | "Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!"
-- Alan Perlis
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| #3637 | | "...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial
technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain
the world's democracies, not the world as a whole."
-- K. Eric Drexler
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| #3638 | | "The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill
and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he
will."
-- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
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| #3639 | | "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and
the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will
lose that, too."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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| #3640 | | "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother
to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied
doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
-- Marvin the Paranoid Android
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