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• The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body
  only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom. -- Jonathan Swif...
• Do you know, I think that Dr. Swift was silly to laugh about Laputa.
  I believe it is a mistake to make a mock of people, just because they think....
• Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love.
  The poor know that it is money. -- Gerald Brena...
• To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social estab- lishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob.
  To rebel against the scientific establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail....
• Those who won't think will have it done for them.
• Be tolerant of those who disagree with you, after all, they have a right to their ridiculous opinions.
• ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
  The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand....
• he bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
  -- Thucydide...
• The greatest joy a man can know is to conquer his enemies and drive them before him.
  To ride their horses and take away their possessions....