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• Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wa
  for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old....
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
  I do not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them....
• I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him
  I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God....
• Psychiatry is quite similar to prostitution, only less honest.
  They both promise to make people feel better, but the prostitute doesn't make pretensions that the feelings will last once the client walks out the door....
• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
  -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859...
• There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "An outline of Intellectual Tubbish...
• It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense. -- Fredrich Hebbel