“ Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. ”
- James F. Bell- Copy
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“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ”
- Brian Eno- Copy
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband — it creeps up insidiously… step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone. ”
- Baron Lane- Copy
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