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Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain. — Bertrand Russell

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others. — Hans F. Sennholz

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk. — Margot Robbie

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others. — Evan Esar

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D.H. Lawrence

What would be wicked would be to say, 'I will not give this person a job because he belongs to this category of people, and there's some kind of statistical tendency for this category of person to be different from that category...' Treat them as individuals! Look at the qualifications of this individual, and forget about the group, race, whatever you want to call it, to which he belongs. — Richard Dawkins

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate. — G.I. Gurdjieff

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside. — Charles Kettering

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.' — Marco Rubio

The ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy was born some time at the end of the first century. Ptolemy based his version of trigonometry on the relationships between the chords of circles and the corresponding central angles of those chords. Ptolemy came up with a theorem involving four-sided figures that you can construct with the chords. In the meantime, mathematicians in India decided to use the measure of half a chord and half the angle to try to figure out these relationships. Drawing a radius from the center of a circle through the middle of a chord (halving it) forms a right angle, which is important in the definitions of the trig functions. These half-measures were the beginning of the sine function in trigonometry. In fact, the word sine actually comes from the Hindu name jiva. — Mary Jane Sterling