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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
– Winston Churchill

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
– George Eliot (1819 – 1880)

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
– Alfred Adler

Be the change you wish to see in the world.
– Gandhi

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
– Robert A. Humphrey

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
– Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” (1936)

The electric meat — that’s us! I don’t mind that at all. If anything, it’s even more awe-inspiring to think that out of physics and chemistry we’re able to get consciousness and thought, and you and I can sit here and have a conversation about electric meat and chemistry. That itself is miraculous. Michael Shermer (2006)

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Mike Baker

    Great quotes Erich! One of my favorites…

    I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself. ~ Marlene Dietrich

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