* fix up alex kozinski quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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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."
 %
-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
@@ -745,3 +746,21 @@ it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
 "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"
+%
+Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several
+hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep.
+ -- Nosferatu in _Nosferatu (1922)_
+