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  ... This and no other is the root from which tyranny springs....
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  Question 18: Witnessing the popularity of "Dilbert", Microsoft has plans to launch a syndicated comic strip featuring life at Microsoft....
• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
  Less good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear and despise him....
• Skinner: [to Lisa] The Grand Exulted Leader requests a moment of your time.
  [claps hands] Class dismissed! Children: Yay! Hoove...
• Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic...
• And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.
  This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive....
• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
  People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point B are so keen to get there....
• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
  People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there....