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There were only two reasons to call me after something like this: to confess his sins or to get revenge. And no one would ever mistake me for a priest.

— Cory Doctorow Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

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As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you."

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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