Wizards First Rule: People Are Stupid

There Is No Place So Dangerous As A World Without Magic.

Nothing Gained Without Cost Is Valued. Freedom Has A Cost, And All Will Bear It So All Will Value And Preserve It.

There Were Those Who Loved Liberty, Who Cried Out To Live Their Own Lives, To Strive, To Rise Above, To Achieve, And Those Bent On The Mindless Equality Of Stagnation Brought About Through The Enforcement Of An Artificial, Arbitrary, Gray Uniformity--those Who Wanted To Transcend Through Their Own Effort, And Those Who Wanted Others To Think For Them And Were Willing To Pay The Ultimate Price.

...think Of The Solution, Not The Problem. If Your Mind Was Filled Only With Thoughts Of Why You Were Going To Lose, Then You Couldn't Think Of How To Win.

The Only Sovereign I Can Allow To Rule Me Is Reason. The First Law Of Reason Is This: What Exists Exists; What Is Is. From This Irreducible, Bedrock Principle, All Knowledge Is Built. This Is The Foundation From Which Life Is Embraced. Reason Is A Choice. Wishes And Whims Are Not Facts, Nor Are They A Means To Discovering Them. Reason Is Our Only Way Of Grasping Reality–it Is Our Basic Tool Of Survival. We Are Free To Evade The Effort Of Thinking, To Reject Reason, But We Are Not Free To Avoid The Penalty Of The Abyss We Refuse To See." -richard