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• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....
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  What is Mister Scott's condition?" McCoy: "Well, I don't think that he--" Spock...
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• I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned.
  It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy....
• 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
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• I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of anothe
  hat every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under them- selve...
• The agreement of so many kinds of animals in a certain common structure
  which seems to be fundamental not only in their skeletons, but also in the arrangement of the other parts - so that a wonderfully simple typical form, by the shortening and lengthening of some parts, and by the suppression and development of others, might be able to produce an immense variety of species - allows a ray of hope, however faint, to enter our minds, that here perhaps some result may be obtained, by the application of the principle of the mechanism of nature (without which there can be no natural science in general)....
• Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose -- and excluding that which is painful.
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