User:Ahseaton

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I trust that God won't give me problems I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. – Mother Theresa

Men and Countries behave wisely when all other alternatives have been exhausted. – Abba Eban

Forgiveness: Giving Up All Hope for a Better Past – catherineblountfdn.org

Resentment does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored, than on the object upon which it is poured.

Some people say that Liberty is a means to other Political ends. I say that Liberty is the highest political end. – Lord Acton

Free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting "Fire!" in a theatre and causing a panic. – Oliver Wendel Holmes, 1917 upholding the conviction under the Espionage Act of Charles Schenck for printing a pamphlet denouncing the WWI Draft as a violation of Involuntary Servitude under the 13th Amendment. (A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, p.366)

From each according their abilities, to each according to their needs. – Louis Jean Joseph Blanc (1811-1882)

Property is Theft! Property is Freedom! Property is impossible! – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) (Property as the "means of production," rather than personal possesions, which are allowed)

I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous. – Dave Bradley, the IBM engineer who invented Ctrl/Alt/Del, on a PC Pioneers panel with Bill Gates. Bill was not amused

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. – Robert Wilensky

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