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• As in Protestant Europe, by contrast, where sects divided endlessly into smaller competing sects and no church dominated any other, all is different in the fragmented world of IBM.
  That realm is now a chaos of conflicting norms and standards that not even IBM can hope to control....
• The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
  -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP....
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
• The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
  The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...
• SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority and significance are attached.
  Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity....
• Article the Third: Where a crime of the kidneys has been committed, the accused should enjoy the right to a speedy diaper change.
  Public announcements and guided tours of the aforementioned are not necessary....
• If you can believe ten impossible things before breakfa
  hen you should join THE CHURCH OF COUNTERFACTUAL BELIEF The Church of Counterfactual Belief has been set up to cater to all who don't allow demonstrable truth to get in the way of their beliefs....