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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), Irish socialist, writer, dramatist and critic: “Man and Superman”, 1903.

“There is a goal but no way of reaching it; what we call the way is hesitation.”
- Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924), Czech-born German-speaking writer: “Reflections on Sin, Sorrow, Hope and the True Way”.

“People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.”
- Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971), American poet: ‘I’m a Stranger Here Myself”, 1938.

“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings.”
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744), English poet, translator and editor: “Miscellanies”, 1727.



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