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"After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, exce…"

"The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—"

"To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise."

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."

"It was better to have a somewhat harsh Budget, which would cure inflation, rather than a generous, popular Budget which would merely undermine the purchasing power of the pound."

"If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, the Holocaust might have been prevented."

"When, in a nation, a despotic ruler grows powerful and the pillars of oppression are erected, it is necessary to effect changes. Whenever possible, they should employ good counsel and perfect advice t…"

"More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own."

"I’ve always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It’s amazing that such rules exist. It’s even more amazing that we can find them."

"Whatever might have been my opinion, had this been a new case, I must hold myself bound by decided cases."

"Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins."

"Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all."

"it can scarcely be necessary to say that the existence of State banks can have no possible influence on the question. No trace is to be found in the Constitution of an intention to create a dependence…"

"A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power."

"Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good."

"There's a standard Internet phenomenon of a Sneer Club of people who enjoy getting together and picking on designated targets. Sneer Clubs attract people with high Dark Triad characteristics, which is…"

"If we do not cut emissions, we face even more devastating consequences, as unchecked they could raise global average temperature to 4C or more above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. Th…"

"If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail."

"Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and st…"

"We are harassing them and will go on harassing them until they are totally exhausted. This is not merely tactics of a definite kind—it is a strategy with a broad perspective, directed at definitive an…"