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• Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented.
  Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level....
• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black is lost in the gray of it.
  It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages....
• To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions .
  .. within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man....
• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were no
  but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men....
• All the little things you and I understand and expect from life, such a
  equality; kindness; justice ... -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders," stardate 5818.4....
• Chivilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. -- Jane Addam
• 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)....
• Two men were sitting over coffee, contemplating the nature of things, with all due respect for their breakfast.
  I wonder why it is that toast always falls on the buttered side," said one....
• In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. -- Yun-Me