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As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
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Ed Krebs, photographer (b. 1951)
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Viewed on August 13, 2010
Contribution #4264
Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain -- this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.
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-Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131)
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Viewed on August 11, 2010
Contribution #4263
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
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Contribution #4241
Concerned words and caring thoughts doesn't mean that you care. Manifesting this words into action implies the meaning of your intentions.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
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Viewed on June 29, 2010
Contribution #4209
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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It is useless to hold a person to anything that they say when they are in love, drunk, or running for office.
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It is amazing how complete is the dillusion that beauty is goodness
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What use is a fine house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease
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The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
Contribution #4101
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Les Noyers de l’Altenburg
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Contribution #4096
Life's Lesson When people are watching your footstep...Let it be.Be grateful and happy.It means,your not alone when you fall.Those people whose watching you should be cautious,it means they're so busy minding your business they forgot their own footstep and didn't realized that in the process they themselves are falling.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes
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If your going to be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
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Viewed on May 26, 2010
Contribution #4059
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
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Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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Viewed on May 19, 2010
Contribution #4042
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Immanuel Kant, philosopher (1724-1804)
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Viewed on May 14, 2010
Contribution #4040
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
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Viewed on May 11, 2010
Contribution #4027
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
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Viewed on May 10, 2010
Contribution #4021
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967)
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Viewed on April 30, 2010
Contribution #3946
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)
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Viewed on April 26, 2010
Contribution #3941
Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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It is better for the blind man to see than a seen person who is blind.SOMETIMES...you see better when your eyes closed.
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I didnt say it was unjustified, I said it was foolish
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Contribution #3855
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Abraham Lincoln
Contribution #3817
If common sense were a reliable guide, we wouldn't need science.
Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
Contribution #3735
Nothing hurts a duck but its bill.
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Contribution #3712
In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion. Happy Holidays"
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Approved sign posted on the Washington State Capitol grounds
Contribution #3706
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. — Jonathan Swift (Thoughts on Religion (1786))
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition
by Oxford University Press
Page 527 - #6
Published by Same as above?
, USA
, 1980
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Contribution #3657
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Liberation Ecology
by Frances Moore Lappe
Page 115
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Contribution #3656
Parenting: Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
He who angers you conquers you.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Contribution #3437
If the village elders don't provide the scripts (for youth success), the village idiots will.
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President, Morehouse College (CNN/Essence - Reclaiming the Dream) July 31, 2009
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Contribution #3431
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate them.
It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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Time Magazine
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Contribution #3227
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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Google
Contribution #3224
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
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Contribution #3131
The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.
I have lost the consolation of faith / though not the ambition to worship.
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The Writers' Almanac, Garrison Keillor, 1/21/09
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Contribution #2897
Trust in Allah and tie up your camel.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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The lottery is a tax for people that are really bad at math.
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Heard it on NPR talking about lottery tickets. June 25th @ 1:20pm PST
Contribution #1563
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Common sense and good nature will do a lot to
make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Viewed on April 14, 2008
Contribution #701
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
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What does common sense look like in a person?
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