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• When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them.
  When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are so to be called, will be the same....
• I'll never discuss my lawyer's character in his absence, so let's discuss his absence of character!
  -- Michael Lara...
• Never remove an anomaly simply because it is an anomaly. -- Macaulay
• Riker: "Locutus of Borg, this is Captain William T.
  Riker of the U.S.S. Enterprise." Locutus: "You may speak....
• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
  -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)...
• Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. -- Julius Caesa
• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
  -- Joseph Joube...
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers....
• This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)...