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Flashback to my childhood, my brother throwing the controller at the Atari game system and screaming:
"The game cheated!"
...
It's just a game until an innocent controller gets hurt.

"Everything exists in some form of correlation with all that is. This is an obvious statement if taken out of the context of our necessity to label any given aspect of existence as independent."...

If I only had a free hand, I could have everything I ever wanted, and more!
If I only had a free mind, I could think what ever I want to think about, plus some!
If only there were two of me, we...

"There was a time when those who arrived upon our shores left their countries to become Americans. Now too often they simply come to be in America."
-- my grandfather

"That which is earned is...

"If memory becomes a time machine, it no longer serves you as a window does."
--Lost Time Traveler

"Knowledge, with reckless indifference to application, can be a destructive force beyond the foresight of decent men."
--Penitent Scientist

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should."
--old...

"The issue of world hunger, pales in comparison to the challenges we will face, if we solve world hunger by feeding everyone."
--Anonymous WHO (World Health Organization) Official

And one more from this obscure, nearly unknown..

"It was not the apple that liberated you, for you were never bound. Nor were you expected to abstain before you understood why.
It is the Tyrant...

"If freedom is frightening, then you may find yourself bound by ignorance."

"Lack of knowledge is not a prison, though ignorance may guide you to one."

--Draco Filius Dei
Book: Libertatem ex...

"An umbrella will not protect you from a tempest, but the progeny of a smile and a grimace, just might."
-- filius nothus de Capitanus Ahab

Edit: the Latin was off.

"The intolerable nuisance of consistently low quality food, was overcome by McDonald's, with a larger menu... Now THAT'S progress!"
--Disgruntled Clown

"No one rejects, as indiscriminately as the rejected, nor do the loved fail to replicate their experience with others."
--Unus Amare

"Complete prevention of challenge, and suffering, is prevention of life. The same is true for ease, joy, and love."
--Maximus Magnus Statera

Common sense: An uncommon ability to make logical decisions.

"Of course there are rigged aspects of football, there is simply too much money involved to be otherwise.
But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the show!"
--Anonymous Retired NFL Referee

"I can appreciate the placebo effect of the snake-oil that you're rubbing on my brain, as long as you washed your hands, and do it with a smile."
--Caesus Viatorem

"Be careful that the words of the hypocrite do not lead you to the same outcome."
--Maximus Sapienasinum

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
--Milton Friedman

"From the deepest desires, often comes the deadliest hate."
--Socrates

Yep, and it's only gonna get worse.. Idle hands.
Robots and AI will be replacing human workers in a big way, experts say... Idle hands.

"Set yourself to a task, to ease your mind."
--Old man on...

"As far as we know, death is the only escape from necessity, though I can always imagine otherwise... So I got that going for me, which is nice!"
--Pragmaticus Magnus Somniator the 3rd

"Many universal truths in life are buried in attempts to highlight relative truths, which are then worshipped upon the alter of ignorance."
--Antimetropian

"Wishes die miserable deaths everyday, and hope without action is the opiate of those without the nerve to pursue their dreams."
--Reluctant Hero

I don't know if any culture throughout history has ever experienced justice equally applied by any governing body.
If I were to guess, I'd say no.
Will it ever? I have had the audacity to hope in...

I'm forever thankful for contrast, without it I would not know the things I love as well as I do, and appreciation would be a novelty.