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hit it frankie. only in new york! start spreading the news [music] we are all going to die. [car crashing noise]. funny. pretty good. all right. yesterday a grand jury indicted danielle pen in jordan neely okayal death. the marine who step in the neely a homeless felon threatening passengers on the subway. things to d aalvin brag who charged pen themirn may go to jail for doing what he thought was right this sucks- does in mean for all of us should this affect the way you defend yourse...

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness." — James Wilson (1790)

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” ― Albert Einstein

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.”

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so” – Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain