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• False is the idea of utility... that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in i
  hat has no remedy for evils, except the destruction of liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1775...
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
  In one of those "true facts" books there was an explanation for this law....
• It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them. -- Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria
• daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning
  later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• daemon: /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.
  A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Len: Those lousy Germans can't fire me. I'm the only one knows how to unjam the rod bottom dissociator.
  Karl: Well, they can't fire me. I'm the only one certified to run the gaseous contaminant particular [sic] fire....