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"”Take
a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it
is to the soul what the water bath is to the body." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Out
of life's school of war. What does not destroy me,
makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are
all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I
dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
"Read, every day,
something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for
the mind to continually be part of unanimity." - Christopher Morley
"He who would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty
he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine
"Moral certainty is always a sign of
cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he
knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in
morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not
of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized
man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His
culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' " - H.L.Mencken
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each
day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days
as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her
time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." - Henry David
Thoreau
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome
mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink
at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink
Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are
pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
[Steve Eley]
"What is more, it appears to be generally realized
that some of the world's foremost philosophers, scientists, and artists have
been avowed atheists and that the increase in atheism has gone hand in hand
with the spread of education." [Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
"The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will
remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institutions may be
abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances, be made subservient to the vilest of purposes."
[George Washington]
"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New
Testament are filled, are fit only for imposters to preach and fools to
believe." [Thomas Paine]
"Of all the systems of religion that ever were
invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying
to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this
thing called Christianity." [Thomas Paine, Age of Reason, pg. 186]
If Jesus loves me, why doesn't he ever send me flowers?
Cogito, ergo non credo.
"Philosophy is questions that may never be
answered. Religion is answers that may never be
questioned." [Anemones]
"The future of a civilization depends on our
overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterizes the thought
of men today." - Albert Schweitzer
"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am
not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse)
going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be
nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am
thankful to atheism." [Isaac Asimov, "On Religiosity",
Free Inquiry]
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to
spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For
whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even
worse." [Isaac Asimov]
There are two major products to come out of
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of
thinking.
Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.
If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop
helping me.
Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe
halted.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend
time with his fools.--For Whom the
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will
teach you to keep your mouth shut.--Ernest Hemingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without
holding on.--Dean Martin
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the
time.--Catherine Zandonella
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.--Oscar Wilde
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal
lobotomy.--Tom Waits
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
the state of facts and evidence." - John Quincy
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the
bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the
restatement of the obvious." - George Orwell
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing
opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think
about us." - Quentin Crisp
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have
occasion to complain of the want of time who never
loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing." -
Thomas Jefferson
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought
and action, where it often substitutes for both." - John Andrew Holmes