"We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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“Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.”
“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”
“I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.”
“When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.”
“The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.”
“I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!”
“It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
“What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.”

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