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H.L. Mencken
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

Blaise Pascal
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
Blaise Pascal

Friedrich Nietzsche
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sophocles
“When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.”
Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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