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Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
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David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort… — David Toop Copy Share Image
What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
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The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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