"Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation."

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“You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.”

“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”

“I said I'd make ye a man, Jim - but damme if ye didn't go and do it behind my back when I were watching elsewhere.”

“Just because you’re living in blissful oblivion doesn’t mean you’re not responsible.”

“People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.”

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"Home page of David Friedman"

— David Friedman

Entertainment1970

#family

"The objection I have to the whipping-post is that it is a punishment which cannot be inflicted by a gentleman. The person who administers the punishment must, of necessity, be fully as degraded as the…"

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Law1833–1899

#family

"The dead? But the dead have no rights. They are nothing; and nothing cannot own something. Where there is no substance, there can be no accident. This corporeal globe, and everything upon it, belong t…"

— Thomas Jefferson

Politics

#justice

"I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorio…"

— John Taylor Gatto

Literature1935–2018

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