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• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• Any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
  ...In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience....
• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities...
• The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.
• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
• You can make it illegal, but can't make it unpopular.
• A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
  -- Ivern Ball, "Modern Secretary...
• You are smart. Can you make us go?