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"The dispensing of injustice is always in the right hands."
—Stanislaw Lec , Unkempt Thoughts, 1957
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New #23
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
A Guy
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"If you want to see the dregs of society, go down to the jail and watch the changing of the guard."- Mark Twain
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
~Harry S. Truman
A Guy
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"Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good." - Philip Gourevitch
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New #28
Yield to temptation.
It may not pass your way again.
Carl Gustav Jung
{ Ken & Jan}
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New #30
hmm, somebody's got that as their sig, attributed to the sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, it appeared in his epic 'time enough for love'
Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer scientist (1791-1871)On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
(i'm going to have to remember that last line of the Babbage quote for some of the questions you see around here!)
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