"The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary."

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Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

Benjamin Tucker

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“Relationships are monuments build on lies”
“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
“Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.”

Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.
“It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.”
“Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.”
“Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.”
“Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.”

Source : "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks". Jimma Times, July 30, 2010.
“My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.”

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