"It is useless to send armies against ideas."

-- Georg Brandes

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“Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.”
“For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.”
“There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.”
“If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.”

Source : Lyall Watson (2003). “Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company
“The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, â€˜notwithstanding,â€™ in the long run remakes the world.”

Source : Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (1983). “The portable Edmund Wilson”, Viking Adult
“I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.”
“Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.”

Source : "Is LISP dying?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. July 15, 1999.
“If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.”

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