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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
  Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them...
• The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
  -- Frederick Douglass....
• You will never know until you have found out, and when you do find out, you may well wish you had not known.
• THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE: * but first, it will make you anxious.
  * however, if it comes in the form of a utility bill, likely the first thing to be freed up will be your bank book....
• Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words.
  The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have...
• And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
  If you are a brave man, you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have the need to prove their bravery....
• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• Wizards are constantly subject to negative publicity.
  A case in point. One elderly wizard of my acquaintance, whenever he was bothered by unexpected guests, would immediately cast one of three spells upon them, either turning them to stone, transforming them into segmented worms, or blasting them entirely out of the kingdom....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....