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• I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
  -- Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) -- On the Study and Use of History, Letter 2...
• ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.
  J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at?...
• Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his maste
  hus it is a sort of grandchild of God. [ che l'arte vostra quella, quanto pote, segue, come 'l maestro fa il discente...
• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. -- William Shakespeare
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete/Successfully in business.
  Cheat. BIBLE = A collection of fantastic legends without any scientific support....
• Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to Him.
  -- Philo T. Farnsworth (one of television's inventors)...
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God
  that He did not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering, and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his works....