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Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.

Smile while you can,' Hettie Close had scrawled in ink almost as faded as the print above it. 'Smile like the skull you'll be, you fool, before you're worse than bones.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Are you still doing that crap?" I ask. "You can't even do it properly," Eileen says. "Just a matter of practice," Simone says. "Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries.

language is no deus ex machina to account for philosophy.

Jefferson was a slaveholder, a racist, and–if one accepts that consent cannot be given if it cannot be denied–a rapist.

sober as a corpse, I used to tell him.

Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away

Mating without caring for the offspring benefits men's reproductive interests more than women's.

About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.

If you have a question," my folks would say, "then find the answer." The

I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic.

sleep medication to Lunexor,

the unpredictability of women who, aside from decisions regarding men, were otherwise rational in their behavior.

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.

The Lone Ranger is a pagan child. If I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling 'em.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar; A moment terrible to hear.

And I admired her walk as she strolled away. Neither my mother nor Issac Asimov had warned me about girls like her.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.