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• The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
  -- Antonio Gramsci...
• every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
  The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
  -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Maste...
• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
  -- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Maste...
• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religio
  ejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science....
• None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or to restrain himself to lust in his heart.
  -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac...
• When you see someone across the room and suddenly know for a fact that he's the most wonderful man on earth, you've got instant lust on your hands.
  Something about the way his tie is knotted is infinitely intriguing to you, and the swell of his bicep causes inner turmoil....