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I know, you hate Atlas... >
>I don't hate it. It starts really well and stays that way until that appalling speech that goes on and on and on and on... a speech of that duration is more normally associated with a 3rd-world despot whose subjects have no choice but to listen. That speech announces that Atlas didn't shrug, he sulked, nursed a grudge and in the end was displaying the same self-centered characteristics as those he abhored. Maybe that's a useful message in itself.
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
