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• Our society won't be truly free until "None of the Above" is always an option.
  -- Eric S. Raymond...
• Truly profound thinkers and highly creative artists are always out of step with their time and their society.
• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
  -- Frank Barro...
• When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers.
  Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit....
• In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security.
  When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free....
• We are all of us the victims of a higher power--a power more evil and more terrible than the human brain can imagine.
  -- Theodore Maxtible, EVIL OF THE DALEKS...
• There is always more than we see.
• Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipme
  a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain.... But they quote this maxim more often at academic banquets than at budget hearings....
• It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hoppe