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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis O. Brandeis (Olmstead vs. United States)

"'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true."
-- Poloniouius, in Willie the Shake's _Hamlet, Prince of Darkness_

"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in.  I'm glad they
are a snowman with protective rubber skin"
-- They Might Be Giants

"Indecision is the basis of flexibility"
-- button at a Science Fiction convention.

"Sometimes insanity is the only alternative"
-- button at a Science Fiction convention.

"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time."
-- a coffee cup

"The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is."
-- Narciso Yepes

"All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or another."
-- Ortega y Gasset

"We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know."
-- Plato

"To undertake a project, as the word's derivation indicates, means to cast an
idea out ahead of oneself so that it gains autonomy and is fulfilled not only
by the efforts of its originator but, indeed, independently of him as well.
-- Czeslaw Milosz