"Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus."

-- William A. Dembski

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“There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.”
“My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?”
“While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”
“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1943). “Nancy Drew 11: The Clue of the Broken Locket”, p.70, Penguin
“Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.”
“Some guys play not to get hurt, and they're never really as good as they can be. That's not the way I play.”

Source : "Kent pleases with solid excellence" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. March 27, 2000.
“Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.”
“Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense”

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