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Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints. Herbert Spencer		Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Sir Tom Stoppard

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	Sir Tom Stoppard
	Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is a British Academy Award winning screenwriter and Tony Award winning playwright. Born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as The Coast of Utopia , Arcadia , and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead , and also for co-writing screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love . Read More

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The bad end unhappily, the good unlucky. That is what tragedy means.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Death followed by eternity ... the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where is it going to end?

Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

I do not pretend to understand the universe. It is a great deal bigger than I am.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Between 'just desserts' and 'tragic irony' we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.