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Airborne Carcinogens and the Little Black Box

Posted November 17, 2001, 12:37 p.m.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Persuasive Speech/Paper)

Posted December 5, 1997, 12:23 p.m.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

John Henry Newman

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

The Constitution[‘s] . . . language is ‘we the people;’ not we the white people. Not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.

Frederick Douglass

The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

To be punished is not an evil; but it is an evil to be made worthy of punishment.

Dionysius

It is my belief that there are ‘absolutes’ in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant. . . .

Hugo Black

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anaïs Nin

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

My faith in the future rests squarely on the belief that man, if he doesn’t first destroy himself, will find new answers in the universe, new technologies, new disciplines, which will contribute to a vastly different and better world in the twenty-first century.

Barry Goldwater

Independent nations have therefore a natural tendency to centralization, and confederations to dismemberment.

Alexis de Tocqueville

As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.

G.K. Chesterton

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Freeman Dyson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

Observation of people convinced me that no man could become a scoundrel in camp if he had not been one before.

Tatyana Falike

I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don’t like it.

Bertrand Russell

Self-esteem is important, but it is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.

Thomas Friedman

The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.

George W. Bush

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