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 > If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
 >
 > —Soviet proverb
+
+https://xkcd.com/1942/
+
+> A woman came up to me and said  
+> "I'd like to poison your mind  
+> With wrong ideas that appeal to you  
+> Though I am not unkind"
+>
+> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
+
+> "The only thing standing in the way of my own progress," Sagreda said, "is that the forces that once dealt with us honestly have been buried too deep to reach. All I can touch now is the surface, which is shaped by nothing but whim."
+>
+> —["Bit Players"](https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2014/bit_players_by_greg_egan) by Greg Egan
+
+> Every asshole these days has a blog. Every asshole with a blog wants to “change the world.” But the great thing about being right is that, when the world catches on, you really can’t tell whether or not they heard it from you. The truth, being true, belongs to all.
+>
+> — https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/11/ur-heard-it-here-first-files/
+
+> Too long I've been afraid of
+> Losing love I guess I've lost
+> Well, if that's love
+> It comes at much too high a cost!
+
+(Kolmogorov's Iron Triangle)
+> Go, Soul, the body’s guest,  
+> Upon a thankless arrant:  
+> Fear not to touch the best;  
+> The truth shall be thy warrant:  
+> Go, since I needs must die,
+> And give the world the lie.  
+>
+> Say to the court, it glows  
+> And shines like rotten wood;  
+> Say to the church, it shows  
+> What’s good, and doth no good:  
+> If church and court reply,  
+> Then give them both the lie.  
+>
+> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh