"The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations."

-- James A. Garfield

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“This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.”
“Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.”
“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.”
“If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.”
“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”
“If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.”
“Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.”

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