Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have … - Thomas Paine

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I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

Thomas Paine

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

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Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?

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