Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will
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All power corrupts, but some must govern.
-- John le Carré
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Remembers me of the legendary #Lijiang drummers song 一瞬间 - 小倩 :)
Sickness is dependent upon the blunders of society.
-- Pierre Cabanis (1890)
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks
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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
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Wisdom in Space
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