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• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• Any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
  ...In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience....
• One useless man can be called a disgrace. Two really useless men can be called a law firm.
  When you get more than these together, you have all the essential ingredients for a committee....
• Shall we dance?
• What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthene
• We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end
  we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hill...
• Age, n.: That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...