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• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Macaulay, "History of England, I...
• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Thomas Macaulay, "History of England...
• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), "History of England...
• I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
  -- Lord Melbourne (1779-1848)...
• Quote #502 In keeping with my non-Aristotelian or relativist-Existentialist bias, I do not classify ideas as simply "true" or "false.
  I prefer to assign them probabilities, on a scale from 0 (the Aristotelian "false") to 10 (the Aristotelian "true")....
• Quote #61 "I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." -- Pooh
• Help. I've descended and I can't get oop!
• Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you.
  It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity, instead of defying you....
• He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow
  He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below....