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It took long hours and cost loads of hardware to find out the
ultimate solution for doubling your hard disks capacity:
   
...ERASE WINDOZE!
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Nein, meine geistige politische Ausstattung besteht 
nach wie vor hauptsaechlich aus den guten Vorsaetzen, 
die meinesgleichen nach 1945 gefasst hat: 
dogmenfrei, aber zaehlebig.
Allerdings stellen mich diese Vorsaetze unter den Deutschen 
unvermeidlich und immer eindeutiger in eine linke Ecke
und nicht auf einen rechten Platz.

Guenter Gaus, 1995
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My old faith...comes back to me, 
and explains all that we do,
and all we suffer. 
By thy first step awry thou didst 
plant the germ of the evil; 
but since that moment, 
it has all been a dark necessity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne in "The Scarlet Letter"
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All things considered, it looks as though 
Utopia were far closer to us than anyone, only 
fifteen years ago, could have imagined. 
Then, I projected it six hundred years into 
the future. To-day it seems quite possible that 
the horror may be upon us within a single century.

Aldous Huxley, 1946  (1894-1963)
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The Inquisition killed its enemies in the open,
and killed them while they were still unrepentant:
in fact, it killed them because they were unrepentant.
  
George Orwell (1903-1950) in "1984"
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A physical shortcoming could produce 
a kind of mental excess.
The process, it seemed, was reversible. 
Mental excess could produce, 
for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness 
and deafness of deliberate solitude, 
the artifical impotence of asceticism.
  
Aldous Huxley in: Brave New World
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Wenn es morgens um sechs Uhr an meiner
Haustuer laeutet und ich sicher sein kann,
dass es der Milchmann ist, dann weiss ich,
dass ich in einer Demokratie lebe.
  
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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...Most people tried to live as comfortable as possible which meant to
compromise with the regime.

Survival in a totalitarian regime basically requires that approach.
That's why it's so ridiculous when the Wessis make a big deal about
investigating and stigmatizing people who "collaborated" with the Stasi.
It's all well and good for them to get on their moral high horses and
pontificate about the need to "resist wrongful authority." They didn't
have secret police permeating their existence.

C. (East German) and T. (American) talking about Stasi and Wessis
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The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand wrapt in awe, is as good as dead.

Albert Einstein
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Welcome friends of the English language
  
This is the famer sowing his corn 
that kept the cock that crowed in the morn
that waked the priest all shaven and shorn 
that married the man all tattered and torn 
that kissed the maiden all forlorn 
that milked the cow with the crumpled horn...
   
Defining relative clauses are great :-)
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"G'Quan wrote:  There is a greater darkness than the one 
we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.  
The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, 
it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh 
is the death of hope. The death of dreams. 
Against this peril we can never surrender.
The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, 
to be born in moments of revelation.  No one knows the shape of 
that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is 
always paved in pain."  

Babylon 5, G'Kar, Season 3 ending in "Z'ha'dum"
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"Why does any advanced civilization seek to 
destroy a less-advanced one?  
Because the land is strategically valuable, 
because there are resources that can be 
cultivated and exploited, but most of all,
simply because they can. 
You have experienced much the same 
on your own world. There are humans for whom 
the words 'never again' carry special meaning, 
as they do for us."

Babylon 5, G'Kar, "And Now For A Word"
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"No dictator...no invader...can hold an imprisoned
population by force of arms forever.  
There is no greater power in the universe than the need 
for freedom.  Against that power, governments and tyrants
and armies cannot stand.  The Centauri learned this lesson
once.  We will teach it to them again.  Though it take a
thousand years, we will be free."

Babylon 5, G'Kar (to Londo), "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
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"Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain.  
Perhaps the greatest of all time.  
The molecules of your body are the same molecules 
that make up this station and the nebula outside, 
that burn inside the stars themselves.  
We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, 
trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, 
sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective."

Babylon 5, Ambassador Delenn, "A Distant Star"
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