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• The vast majority of right-minded people are wrong.
• The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
  -- William J. Broad...
• Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
  Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?...
• In a decision sure to cause major controversy for several minutes, the US Supreme Court struck down the First Law of Nature, judging it to be unlawfully discriminatory.
  Though never actually written down, the First Law of Nature is generally accepted by the American Bar Association to be, "If an individual or collection of individuals puts into practice or causes to be put into practice an action which, measured against the judgement of a reasonable person, is unwise or lacking in basic common sense, then the aforementioned individual or collection of individuals shall suffer all consequences resulting from that action, up to and including loss of life....
• 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....
• 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...
• The vast majority of people who live a rural life tend to do this in the country, away from viewers and watchers, and for this, I guess we can be thankful.
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  Thomas Jefferson [letter,1807]...