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• He was the nearest thing I'd seen to a human being without actually being one. -- Spike Milliga
• Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
• The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from self.
  -- Albert Einstei...
• Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it, .
  .. you might end up being wrong. -- Jimmy Buffe...
• Homer: Hey, Flanders, next time why don't you put a little alcohol in it!
  Ned: Au contraire, Simpson. It has three shots of rum, a jigger of bourbon, and just a little daberilla of creme de cassis for flavor....
• The value of money has an objective regulator only when it is linked to a real commodity, like gold, itself requiring the cost of human labor to be produced.
  By comparison, the value of inconvertible paper money has no objective regulator, its marginal cost of production being nearly zero....
• DEMONSTRATES QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP: Has a loud voice. -- Interpreting supervisors comments...
• Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated.
  Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being....
• If value corrupts then absolute value corrupts absolutely.