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• In art and in everything, the commentator is generally better informed and more lucid than the subject of commentary.
  This is the advantage the murderer has over his victim. -- E.M. Ciora...
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• To endure what is unendurable is true endurance. -- Japanese proverb
• here being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection.
  -- John Locke...
• Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, posesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at any hour of the day some new humiliation.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. -- Thomas Carlyle
• There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. -- Churchill
• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second-rate president.
  -- Richard M. Nixo...
• Dear Sir, I am firmly opposed to the spread of microchips either to the home or to the office, We have more than enough of them foisted upon us in public places.
  They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result in the farmers being forced to grow smaller potatoes, which in turn will cause massive un- employment in the already severely depressed agricultural industry....