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- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
- Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.
- Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,…
- My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does…
- Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing…
- Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an…
- There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit…
- People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding…
- The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.…
- From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you…
- The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
- Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight…
- Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as…
- A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any…
- Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
- when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
- It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
- Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work.…
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the…
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