"Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Character Quotes #Judging Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“You can't bond with a male until you set your parents free.”
“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.”
“I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.”
“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”
“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”
“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
“Whatever is not stone is light”
“If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”

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