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[jackofallgeeks]

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Pierce

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
- Wernher Von Braun

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol

And one for the techies...
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup