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To Limit The Press Is To Insult A Nation; To Prohibit Reading Of Certain Books Is To Declare The Inhabitants To Be Either Fools Or Slaves.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain
books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
--Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), French philosopher, from De
L'Homme, Vol. 1, sec. 4.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Observations on Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation, -- Vol....
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Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.
poiler: [USENET] n. 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movie
hus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie....
poiler n. [Usenet] 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movie
hus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie....
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versaille
and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....
Remove me from this land of slaves, Where all are fools, and all are knaves, Where every knave and fool is bought, Yet kindly sells himself for nough
-- Jonathan Swif...
Coup de grace -- French for lawnmower?
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books.
You will be reading meanings. Harold Geneen, from Managing...