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• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
  -- Spinoza...
• Quote #464 Oh wait. You are a self-admitted Communi
  herefore, you *cannot* judge for yourself, but must obey 'the will of the people'....
• The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.
  "Membership in Oak City's Civic Club . a club whose primary objective is to discuss local issues ....
• The notion of ideas as infectious diseases is one to which most authoritarian religions and governments subscribe, and they hold massive "hygienic" burnings of the "viral DNA" behind the ideas.
  Promulgators of these "diseased" ideas are called "carriers of spiritual impurity" (to use one phrase now popular in China) and attempts are made to prevent the spread of these diseases....
• The reason hot-rod owners raise the backs of their cars is that it's easier to go faster when you're always going downhill.
  -- Omni...
• Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
• What we have here, is a NEED to communicate!
• Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience.
  Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use....