"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
-Ayn Rand

"I refuse to tip toe through life only to arrive safely at death."
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"The museums of our youth are our children. They are holding something in them, something that looks a lot like what we once were. They are our cave paintings and hieroglyphics and frescoes, keeping the record of everything beautiful in us."
-The Dipso Chronicles

"Generally speaking, people who launch media careers are "do-gooders," wanting to inform the people regarding how to make the world and their communities better places. It comes off, mostly, as a liberal bias."
-John Coleman, Weather Channel founder

"...the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of search. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

-Dwight David Eisenhower