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Voltaire
“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
Voltaire, Candide

Ayn Rand
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Sun Tzu
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

George Orwell
“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

Robert A. Heinlein
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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