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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

— Alexander Chase Anna Hart (1988)

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.

Jonathon Green (1988)

For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment.

Jonathon Green (1988)

Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant.

Wesley Douglass Camp (1989)

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.

Rhoda Thomas Tripp (1970)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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