The conscience is that little voice in your head that says,'someone might be watching'
-H. L. Mencken
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-P. J. O'Rourke
Boxing is a lot like ballet, except that they don't dance, there isn't any music, and they hit each other.
It would be absurd to leave the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal to the unfettered control of the populations through whose territory they pass.
You can embrace the changing winds or not, but ask yourself, are those ties worth keeping?
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
-Lewis Thomas
it is probable that more humans exist in the past than in the future. but it is more probable that where humans cease to exist they begin to be something else entirely
It is with a deep sense of joy and wonder that I wish these few larblishes help you shack off the smeckles of nimb lecklisness and brim qwirkqwishly in the deep helber swuag.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
-Marcus Aurelius
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