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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death He is going to pay his debt to society, but: They are going to cut off his head. It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

-- Albert Camus

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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

-- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

-- Matt Gonzalez

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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

-- Richard P. Feynman

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... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

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My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

-- Matt Mullenweg

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

-- Kenneth Clarke

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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

-- Susan George

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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

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