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• The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence.
  He can smile in the face of the most terrible though...
• It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
  The sane are usually attracted by other things than power....
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter then the other.
  Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, when the dolphins just played all day....
• It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
  The sane are usually attracted by other things than power....
• Homer: Larry, there's only one sure way to make him realize how much he loves you.
  And that is a phony kidnapping. Larry: Yeah, right....
• He had studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had learned to write equations of the most abstruse kind, without as much as a tremble of the chalk.
  -- Isaac Asimov "More Things in Heaven and Earth...
• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• The president has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited.
  He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television....