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Michael Levitt

There is no doubt in my mind that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor.
Professor Michael Levitt, as quoted in “Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential,” by Freddie Sayers, May 2, 2020. Levitt is Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Levitt also said that “I think the policy of herd immunity is the right policy. I think Britain was on exactly the right track before they were fed wrong numbers. And they made a huge mistake.”

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Stanley Kubrick

Never, ever go near power. Don’t become friends with anyone who has real power. It’s dangerous.
Quoted by Christiane Kubrick, in “After Kubrick,” The Guardian (August 18, 2010). See also “The Shining — Kubrick’s Gold Story,” Part Two, by Rob Ager.

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James Mill

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Post date May 14, 2020
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It never ought to be forgotten, that, in every country, there is ‘a Few,’ and there is ‘a Many’; that in all countries in which the government is not very good, the interest of ‘the Few’ prevails over the interest of ‘the Many,’ and is promoted at their expence. ‘The Few’ is the part that governs; ‘the Many’ the part that is governed.

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Seneca the Younger

“Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”

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Herbert Spencer

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

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David Crockett

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

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