* add evil apathy quote

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@@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ have exhausted all other possibilities.
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
 unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
 unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware

-of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims
-of the darkness.
+of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting
+victims of the darkness.

  -- William O. Douglas
 %
 One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
  -- William O. Douglas
 %
 One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back


@@ -711,3 +711,45 @@ J.W. Grant: "Bastard!"
 Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
 you're a self-made man."
  -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"
 Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
 you're a self-made man."
  -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"

+%
+"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
+a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
+asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
+mother told me when I was young."
+"Why, what did she tell you?"
+"I don't know, I didn't listen."
+ –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
+%
+a friend will help you move
+a best friend will help you move bodies
+but if you have to move your best friend's body
+you're on your own
+ -- a softer world #242
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242
+%
+It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
+to open a bottle of whine.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
+%
+The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous.
+If you think about it, your honour,
+I'm an environmentalist.
+ -- a softer world #283
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283
+%
+We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III.
+Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If
+it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
+ -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_
+%
+"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak
+up for them as have no voices."
+ -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
+%
+But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
+dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
+ -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
+%
+There is no more concentrated form of evil
+than apathy.