; ; comment lines start with a semi colon ; The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. -- Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind == "I love deadlines, especially the whooshing sound they make as they go by." -- Douglas Adams == "The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem" -- Filgrams Fifth Fundamental Finding == ; this quote contains a comment "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day" -- Frank Sinatra == "The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. " -- Sir George Jessel == ; this quote contains a comment and a blank line ; plus the author is indented "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton == "Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!" -- Klingon Programmers == "I don t believe a committee can write a book . It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don t believe it can write a book." -- Arnold Toynbee == "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -- Henry Ford == "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. == A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. -- Ramsey Clark == "Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecuna possit." ("No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it." ) -- Marcus Tullius Cicero == Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest -- Diderot == "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom go from us in peace. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you." -- Samuel Adams == ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See == It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred -- Adler == And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. -- Marcus Aurelius == "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." -- John Barrymore ==