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• The Committee for the Reduction of Redundancy and the Antiproliferation of Repetition has decided not to meet until they have their first meeting and thus will not be meeting until the first time.
  Their Premeeting Statement wanted to make this clear before they had their first meeting, so that it would not be uncertain or confusing....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• Ask them who they'd prefer to meet - Squadron Commander Flasheart or the man who cleans out the public toilets in Aberdeen and they'll go for Wee Jock Poo Pong McPlop every time.
  .. -- Edmund : Private Plane...
• For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal
  and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must. -- Thucydide...
• Those who won't think will have it done for them.
• ivial adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
  Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have thought of them already....
• Oh ye who go about saying unto each other: "Hello sailo
  Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin before the gods?...
• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.
  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camu...
• There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them.
  -- Dugald Stewe...