I think we're here for each other.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Andre Gide, Les Nouvelles Nourri

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Patrick Henry

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't knowÂ… you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

John Updike, Interview with Dail

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Orson Pratt, Writings (18111838)

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

Midrash

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

William Shakespeare

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things don't stay the way they are, said Finnerty. It's too entertaining to try to change them.

Kurt Vonnegut

What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.

Bruce Schneier

Father mother god, help me to feel my oneness with you. Help me to feel my equality with my brothers and sisters

Paul Ferinni, from a prayer give

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Jesse Eisenberg