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• You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• War is much too serious to be left to the generals. -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
• Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer.
  It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that....
• If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
  -- Georges Simeno...
• The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker?
  . . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created....
• I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
  -- Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS...
• I respect your right to make an idiot of yourself. Please respect mine.
• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbo