"Laws are often made by fools, and even……" — Michel de Montaigne

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial… — Gijs de Vries
• In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to… — Elwyn Brooks White
• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph… — Frederick Soddy
• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

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