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• Most societies do not take their greatest thinkers seriously, even when they claim to admire them.
• You have more respect for a capable shoeshine boy, than for a crass opportunist.
• People will persist in joining things. -- The Motorcycle Boy
• INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us.
  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye....
• In most societies, competition generally has more of a negative than a positive effect.
• Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
• Flint Paper is insane. I really respect that." -- "Sam and Max", Freelance Police
• With all due respect, Mrs. Simpson, you're not a doctor, the boy's not a doctor, the only person who even comes CLOSE is this man [Nick Riviera].
  -- Lionel Hutz responding to Marge's skepticism, "Bart Gets Hit by a Ca...
• The imposition of stigma is the most common form of violence used in democratic societies.
  --R. A. Pinke...