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• I live in my own place have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself -- I laugh.
  -- inscribed over the door to Friedrich Nietzsche's house...
• 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....
• There has never been an intellegent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again.
  His or anyone else's....
• It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
  -- Freeman Dyson Freeman did indeed say that, but I'm probably the only person who was listening to him at the time....
• If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Man fools himself, prays for a long life, and fears old age.
• Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it.
  -- Artemus Ward...
• The Bore is the person who deprives you of your solitude without any form of recompense in the form of decent company.
  A good bore can consume within the space of one year, one and a half times his own weight in patience....
• He that never changed any of his opinions never corrected any of his mistake
  and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself will not be charitable enough to excuse mistakes in others....