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@@ -303,12 +303,13 @@ handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison.  "If this
 is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
 doesn't deserve to have any."
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-The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis
-far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored
-effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all
-the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting
-on it--and is just as likely to succeed.
- -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer
+The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its
+thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's
+labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight
+has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by
+sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed.
+ -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer
+    (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4)
 %
                     EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
 Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
@@ -536,8 +537,8 @@ 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
-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
@@ -720,6 +721,60 @@ mother told me when I was young."
 "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.
+%
+I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be
+pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My
+life is my own. I resign.
+ -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner"
+%
+Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are
+you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
+INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are
+you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number One? YOU ARE NUMBER SIX. I am not
+a number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
+ -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner"
+%
+Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several
+hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep.
+ -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_
+%
+Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
+as society is free to use the results. 
+ -- Richard M Stallman _GNU Manifesto_
+%
+"She decided what she wished to happen and then assumed that reality
+would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes."
+ -- Terry Goodkind _Phantom_ p133