Free, scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
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The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all …
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things à bad language and whatever à it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. … There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.” George Carlin
March 12, 2004
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman Nobel …
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006) (Attributed to him)
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to …
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully, and always with a sense of our own limitations.If men believe, as I do, that this present earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it. Jean Riley Anderson
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[L]ike everyplace else, talent went were the money was.
Tom Clancy
The Bear and the Dragon, 2000
President Clinton was in contempt of court for his willful failure to …
President Clinton was in contempt of court for his ‘willful failure’ to testify truthfully in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright
April 12, 1999, CNN.
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to …
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God. Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy, …
We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy, or forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunity for the creative and the productive. Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, June 18, 1964 (1909-1998)
Why should I trust you? You’re reporters. Tom Clancy Executive Orders, …
Why should I trust you? You’re reporters.
Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing …
I can very well conceive that some one having an article containing more or less opium would feel that he was in danger if the public knew of it, and with a pliable public official it would be easily possible for him to keep this damaging fact from public knowledge. Charles H. Fletcher
N.Y. Times, Apr. 15, 1892. On the impact that the predecessor to 1906 Act (“Wiley Act” on Food and Drugs) could have on the unscrupulous – an invitation to bribery.