"I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us."

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“This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.”

“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”

“All the big powers...they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.”

“This is a medical service. It always was.”

“As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.”

“The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death!”

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"Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke...."

— Jacob M. Appel

Ethics1973

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"Modern capitalism has as little use for liberum arbitrium persons as laborers as it has for the businessman fully without scruples in the running of his company."

— Max Weber

Science1836–1897

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"When a castaway collapses from hunger and thirst it is fear of physical want rather than a real want, they say. Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost."

— Kōbō Abe

Literature1924–1993

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"Towns should be laid out not as an exact square nor with salient angles, but in circular form, to give a view of the enemy from many points. Defense is difficult where there are salient angles because…"

— Vitruvius

Technology-79–-14

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