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salonSuppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself-Mark Twain
salonIt is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.-Mark Twain
salonThe man who does not read good books has -no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain
salonThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams [1772]
salonWe are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer-Hunter S Thompson
humanbeingThe key to change...is to let go of fear. Roseanne Cash
salonDemocracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.-Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"Benjamin Franklin
Lifer"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and this is a loyalty to the American People." Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
salonThe financial crisis in America is really a moral crisis, caused by the series of proofs which the American public has received that the leading financiers who control banks, trust companies and industrial corporations are often imprudent, and not seldom dishonest. They have mismanaged trust funds and used them freely for speculative purposes. Hence the alarm of depositors, and a general collapse of credit.-The Economist 1908
salonLife is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends-Joseph Campbell
salonStaying at your office until all your work is done is like making your dog stay inside until she stops barking at the mailman. It's never going to happen. So go home and take your dog for a walk. You'll both be much happier and if the mailman is lucky, you'll be off playing frisbee when he comes - Raymond Lesser
salonFreedom of speech means the freedom to disagree
salonThere are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't
salonProofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out
salonLive as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever. 'Mahatma Ghandi'
salon"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther)
salon"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." (Albert Einstein)
salonNobody taught me how to do this stuff. Figure it out yourself. You won't break anything...probably.
salonI used to be a necrophiliac, but then I got a divorce.
salonNormalcy is a fallacy propagated by the insecure.
salonIf a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong ?
salonRummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.
salonYou've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.
salonEveryone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.
salonI wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar. Then I'd have all my money back.
salonJust because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
salonAge and Treachery will always overcome Youth and Skill
salonIf at first you do succeed, hide your astonishment.
salonI have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain
salon"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." -- Thomas Jefferson
salonNecessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt (1759-1806)
salon"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
salon"One man with courage is a majority." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
salon"If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should all want bread." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
salonWe hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop (~550 BC)
salon"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus (A.D. 55?-130?)
salon"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen." -- General George Washington
salon"Government corruption is always reported in the past tense." -- The Watergate Principle
salon"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
salon"People separated from their history are easily persuaded." -- Karl Marx
salon"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -- Voltaire
salonNo appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming. -- Outside A Muffler Shop
salon"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato
salon"I hate quotations." -- Emerson
salon"Life is a tragedy in close shot, and a comedy in long shot." -- Charlie Chaplin
salonTo see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
salon"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -- George Bernard Shaw
salon"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
salonHell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
salon"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers
salon"I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back." -- Henny Youngman
salon"By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher." -- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
salon"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue." -- Greek Proverb
salon"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." -- Robert C. Gallagher
salon"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them." -- Louis B. Nizer
salon"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- George Bernard Shaw
salon"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." -- Isaac Asimov
salon"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
salon"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." -- Adolf Hitler
salon"Before mocking someone, walk a mile in their shoes - that way you'll be a mile away and have their shoes when you do eventually mock them."
salon"640K of RAM should be just about enough for anyone" -- Bill Gates
salonThey say procrastination is the reason for my sorrow / I don't know what that big word means, I'll look it up tomorrow
salonAll ugly, non-humanoid alien races are hostile, and usually hell-bent on destroying humanity for some obscure reason. -- Law of Non-Anthropomorphic Antagonism
salon'Madam, I Am Drunk, You Are Fat And Ugly. Tomorrow I Will Be Sober.' - Winston Churchill, responding to a woman at a party.
salonThe whole day stretches before us with unlimited opportunity! And what better way to appreciate that opportunity than by squandering it watching cartoons all day!-Calvin(Calvin and Hobbes)
salonKill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.
salonSearch others for their virtues, yourself for your vices - Benjamin Franklin
salonHow do you know when a southern man is about to die? When he says "Hey ya'll, watch this."
salonIt's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
salon"If you think you understood what I just said, then you didn't understand what I just said." -Alan Greenspan
salon"No matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up." -Lily Tomlin
salonWhoever believes in beauty sleep never saw a woman wake up...
salonGive me ambiguity, or give me something else!
salon"You know, Timmy, sometimes the car doesn't fall far from the tree." -Police Squad
salon"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my Grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passenger in his car." ~Jack Handey
salon"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." ~Jack Handey
salon"When sea was calm / all ships alike / showed mastership in floating." - William Shakespeare
salonI'm not paranoid, I know that's what you say behind my back?
salonThere are two theories to arguing with women. Neither of them works.
salonMoney talks it usually says goodbye.
salonDeep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dream of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. - Orison Swett Marden
salonMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson
salonA cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -H L Mencken
salonGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -H L Mencken
salonIt is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. -H L Mencken
salonNobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. -H L Mencken
salonSay what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.-H L Mencken
salonThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -H L Mencken
salonPeople say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.-H L Mencken
salonThe most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected-H L Mencken
salonThe way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame. True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge.-H L Mencken
salonWe must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.-H L Mencken
salonThe Creator is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh-H L Mencken
salonIf a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner-H L Mencken
salon"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." Treaty of Tripoly, article 11 -John Adams
salonBut how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed." -John Adams
salon"It was, of course, a lie...I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly." -Albert Einstein
salonDuring almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."-James Madison
salon"Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together" Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822 -James Madison
salonTo discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life.� letter to J. C. Martin, 9 November 1908 -Teddy Roosevelt
salonI hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.� Carnegie Hall address, 12 October 1915 -Teddy Roosevelt
salon"What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it." Susan B. Anthony: A Biography, by Kathleen Barry, New York University Press, 1988, p.310 -Susan B Anthony
salon"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." Age of Reason-Thomas Paine
salonAll natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." The Age of Reason-Thomas Paine
salon"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it." -Oscar Wilde
salonI believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -Frank Lloyd Wright
salon"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business." Quoted from an interview with Playboy magazine -Jesse Ventura
salonIf only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank." Selections from the Allen Notebooks," in New Yorker (5 Nov. 1973) -Woody Allen
salonIt is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner." -Ben Bergor
salon"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"-Unknown
salon"There are two different kinds of people in this world: those who finish what they start, and" Brad Ramsey
salonI suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror." -Flann O'Brien
salonA woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house." -Unknown
salonTeenager with nose ring, baggy clothing and spiked hair to friend: I don't really like dressing like this, but it keeps my parents from dragging me everywhere they go." -Unknown
salon"Not all chemicals are bad. Without hydrogen or oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer."-Dave Barry
salonCleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." -Phyllis Diller
salonHe who laughs last probably didn't get the joke." -Unknown
salon"Everyone has the ability of making someone happy, some by entering the room, others by leaving it." -Unknown
salon"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be." -Unknown
salon"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up.'" -Lenny Bruce
salonWhatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." -Charlotte Whittond
salon"You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something." H Jackson Brown, Jr
salon"School is like a lollipop. It sucks until it is gone." -Ashley Salvati
salon"If you can't be kind, at least be vague."-Judith Manners
salon"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-Will Rogers
salonKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."-Mark Twain
salonIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-Artistotle
salonMusic washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life- Berthold Auerbach
salonWhat I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrifically witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.-Dave Barry
salonLaughter is the closest distance between two people-Victor Borge
salonAs long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it-Dick Cavett
salonOne of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion-Arthur C Clarke
salonIf fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.-Anatole France
salonThere are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.-Oscar Wilde
salon'we are a nation of christians and muslims, jews and hindus, and nonbelievers.-Barack Obama
salon“Run, don’t walk, to the first library you can find and read what they’re trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they’re trying to keep out of your brains. Because that’s exactly what you need to know.” - Stephen King
salon“The man beholdeth himself in the glass and goeth his way, and straightway both the mirror and the mirrored forget what manner of man he was…”-Oliver Wendell Holmes
salon“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”-Mark Twain
salonChristianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law-Thomas Jefferson
salonFix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences…. If it end in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others it will procure for you-Thomas Jefferson
salonMillions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth-Thomas Jefferson
salonLife isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all - William Goldman
salonOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does-Will Rogers
salonThe dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself-Archibald Macleish
salonThe only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with-Eleanor Holmes Norton
salonRestriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.-William O Douglas
salonOne of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.-A A Milne
salonThe moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.-Monica Baldwin
salonLife is "trying things to see if they work."-Ray Bradbury
salonAnd we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.-Neitzsche
salon“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”-Galileo
salonNothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages.”-Galileo
salonI think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.”-Galileo
salonIn religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from others-Mark Twain
salonI thank God, I shall never again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, Brazil, I heard the most pitiful screams, and could not suspect that some poor slave was being tortured ... Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal...I have seen a boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horse whip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean. It makes one’s blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty-Charles Darwin
salon"When entering a crowded streetcar, a lady should leave the door open. It is quite permissible for her to appropriate the seat of the man who gets up to close it"-The Cynic's Rules of Conduct-1905
salon…we all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time.-Babylon 5
salon*I will say that it is a great day for Anna Nicole Smith, she is no longer the most famous (notorious) former Mexia resident. *-About Sir Allen Stanford from Waco Trib
salon"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." --H.L. Mencken
salonI do not like work even when someone else does it-Mark Twain
salonAnyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's suppoed to be doing at that moment-Robert Benchley
salonThe classes that wash most are those who work lease- G K Chesterton
salonWhen you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living- Helen Rowland
salonI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career- Gloria Steinem
salonCrime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law-Justice Louis Brandeis
salonIf the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.-William Blake
salonIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.-Upton Sinclair
salonLaws do not persuade just because they threaten- Seneca
salonSilence Gives Consent
salonIf liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. -Aristotle
salonThe condition upon which God that given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. -John Philpot Curran
salonWhen a tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. -Plato
salonWhat country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. -Thomas Jefferson
salonThe very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. -John C Calhoun
salonAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde
salonEvery man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labors and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. -Thomas Jefferson
salonIf you ever injected the truth into politics, you would have no politics-Will Rogers
salonFreedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one-A.J. Liebling
salonWhen you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again- Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
salonMan was born free and everywhere he is in shackles-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
salonHistory: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools-Ambrose Bierce
salonThe legitimate object of a government is to do for a community of people what ever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities-Abraham Lincoln
salonGovernment is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us-Tolstoy
salonIt is not possible to found a lasting power on injustice-Demosthenes
salonAny people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right -- a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.-Abraham Lincoln
salonIt is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which the truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it by the Government itself or a private licensee. -Supreme Court 1969
salonFreedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction suppression of that freedom by private interests. -Supreme Court 1945
salonCapitalism did not arise because capitalists stole the land and the workmen's tools, but because it was more efficient than feudalism. It will perish because it is not merely less efficient than socialism, but actually self-destructive. -Haldane
salonThe great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line-Steinbeck
salonWhen it comes to the news, force-fed to us through the media, corporately-owned, we know the cards are stacked. The corporate view is `objective,' all else is `propaganda.-Studs Terkel
salonThe man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on- Robert Bloch
salonTime is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils-Berlioz
salonLast night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.
salonI have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them-George Bush
salonAfter twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, *No Hablo Ingles*
salonDont accept your dogs admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful-Ann Landers
salonThe great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.-Samuel Butler
salonScratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job-Franklin P Jones
salonMy goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am
salonIf you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around-Will Rogers
salonSteal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king ...Bob Dylan
salonNever discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." Plato
salonPeople who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. -Bill Watterson
salonThe best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. -Dorothy Parker
salonBecause I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.-Amelia Burr
salonLove life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back-Arthur Rubenstein
salonDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.-Benjamin Franklin
salonOur lives are like a candle in the wind.-Carl Sandburg
salonLife is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep-Carl Sandburg
salonLove doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.-Franklin P Jones
salonBe glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.-Henry Van Dyke
salonLife is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.-Henry Frederick Amiel
salonSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.-Helen Keller
salonThe great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain-Lord Byron
salonNothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood-Marie Curie
salonThere was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy-Mark Twain
salonTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?-Mary Oliver
salonMany people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
salonWe as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
salonWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday-Ralph Waldo Emerson
salonLife is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy-Ralph Waldo Emerson
salonThe principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be-Raymond Charles Barker
salonThe best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.-Robert Louis Stevenson
salonDon't strew me with roses after I'm dead.When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!-Thomas F Healey
salonLife is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.-Tom Lehrer
salonLife would be much easier if I had the source code.-Unknown
salonHalf our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save-Will Rogers
salon“The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."”-William Greider
salonWithout free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."-Chalres Bradlaugh
salonThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.-Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky
salonEveryone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage-Winston Churchill
salonIf librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas."-Graceanne A Decandido
salonDon't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed-Dwight D Eisenhower
salonEvery burned book enlightens the world- Ralph Weldo Emerson
salonThis is slavery, not to speak one's thought."-Euripides
salonIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed-Benjamin Franklin
salonFear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice-Holbrook Jackson
salonChildren deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble-Peter S Jennison
salonQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?"-Juvenal
salonLighthouses are more helpful than churches."-Benjamin Franklin
salonOf all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."-Thomas Paine
salonI cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."-Benjamin Franklin
salonAs to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men-Thomas Paine
salon"...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas -Thomas Paine
salonWhenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."-Thomas Paine
salonThat God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not."-Thomas Paine
salonThe Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."-Abraham Lincoln
salonI am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity-Abraham Lincoln
salonIn those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue-Ethan Allen
salonThere is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."-George Washington
salonMy earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."-Abraham Lincoln
salonI am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by religious men who are certain they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me."-Abraham Lincoln
salonbelieve in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him-Hohn F Kennedy
salonI would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation."-Ulysses S Grant
salonIf not an absolute atheist, he had no belief in a future existence. All his ideas of obligation or retribution were bounded by the present life-John Quincy Adams on Thomas Jefferson
salonThe Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust."-Thomas Jefferson
salonHe is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong-Thomas Jefferson
salonThe legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."-Thomas Jeffferson
salonIf we could believe that [Jesus]...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter-Thomas Jefferson
salonI contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State-Thomas Jefferson Letter to Danbury Baptists Assn
salonAll persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution-Thomas Jefferson 1776
salonIt is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac."-Thomas Jefferson
salonThe Christian god can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites-Thomas Jefferson
salonChristianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."-Thomas Jefferson
salon"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading."-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
salon"[I]t may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others."-James Madison
salonIts first and most immediate purpose rested on the belief that a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion."-Justice Black on the Establishment Clause
salonNeither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between church and state-Hugo Black
salonI do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States-Thomas Edison
salonMy mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it."-Thomas Edison
salon"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."-Thomas Edison
salonSo far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk."-Thomas Edison
salonTo those seaching for truth - not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope-Thomas Edison
salonThere is nothing in either savage or civilised history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy's campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all 'creatures that breathe,' all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity-Mark Twain
salon"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."-Mark Twain
salon"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."-Albert Einstein
salonThe idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously-Albert Einstein
salonThe foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."-Albert Einstein
salonI have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."-Albert Einstein
salonA man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."-Albert Einstein
salon"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."-Albert Einstein 1954
salonWhat I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."-Stephen W Hawking
salon"Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts -- there is just too much misery and cruelty for that."-Benjamin Spock
salonEat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. -Adele Davis
salonTell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
salonThe most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -Calvin Trillin
salonBear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. -Epictetus
salonPreach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. -Epictetus
salonIt is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do-Moliere
salonFanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.-George Santayana
salonI had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No Good in a Bed, but fine against a wall'- Eleanor Roosevelt
salonNever invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon- Peter Lynch
salonThe Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time - Bertrand Russell
salon"See, there's two types of clowns: There's clowns that put on makeup to look like clowns so they can go to birthday parties, then there's clowns that put on makeup to look like people so they can go to the liquor store." -Emmett Montgomery
salonNothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticize something, and that he is absolutely refused-Alex de Tocqueville
salonDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”-Norman Cousins
salonnever attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity-Unknown
salonA true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. -Bernard Meltzer
salon“Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe-Cymbelline
salonTaxes are the price we pay for civilized society-Oliver Wendell Holmes
salonBirthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most of them live the longest- unknown
salonNo one gossips about other's secret virtues- Bertrand Russell
salonEmploy thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure- Benjamin Franklin
salonKeep Your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards- Benjamin Franklin
salonIf the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts- Albert Einstein
salonAs far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." -Albert Einstein
salonIt is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place-H L Mencken
salonDiscipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment-Jim Rohn
salonThere's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together- Josh Billings
salonA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill
salonTo laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded-Ralph Waldo Emerson
salonBe not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men-Dr Samuel Johnson
salonGenius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped-Elbert Hubbard
salonI am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose-Woody Allen
salonMy wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe-Jimmy Durante
salonAn inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather-Washington Irving
salonA good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book-Irish proverb
salonShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
salonI count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self-Aristotle
salonThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up-Mark Twain
salonWhen one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us-Alexander Graham Bell
salonMoney doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." -Arnold Schwarzenegger
salonThe way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason-Benjamin Franklin
salonShake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak mines are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear-Thomas Jefferson
salonAll successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing some one or something else.-H L Mencken
salonHow dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong-Sophocles
salonPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy-Ernest Bean
salonThose are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others-Groucho Marx
salonGiving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys-P J O'Rourke
salonWhen politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.-P J O'Rourke
salonGod has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell-P J O'Rourke
salonNo man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session-Judge Gideon J Tucker
salonThis country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when a baby gets hold of a hammer-Will Rogers
salonIt is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.-Will Rogers
salonThe difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself-Joseph Sobran
salonPoliticians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money -- only for wanting to keep your own money-Joseph Sobran
salonThere ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all-Davy Crockett
salonIf a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.-H L Mencken
salonLooking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.-H L Menchken
salonThe problem with political jokes is they get elected- Henry Cate VII
salonThere is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else- Thomas Sowell
salonYou have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down-Thomas Sowell
salonWhat is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?-Thomas Sowell
salonSince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.-Charles de Gaulle
salonExperience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute -- not much to recommend them.-Charley Reese
salonPolitics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.Ronald Reagan
salonPoliticians may think prostitution is a grim, degrading life. But prostitutes think the same of politics-Steve Chapman
salonWe should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail-Gerald Warner
salonIt is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.-Thomas Sowell
salonYou can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil-Walter E Williams
salonBad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences-Molly Ivins
salonThe personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people-James P Hogan
salonOur current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top -- though they often do -- but that the best will never even apply.Paul Jacob
salonThe government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office-H L Mencken
salonNothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking-Rutherford B Hayes
salonYou cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest-Ambrose Bierce
salonThe United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew political power attracts swarms of crooks, demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts swarms of horseflies-Rick Gaber
salonForce always attracts men of low morality-Albert Einstein
salonIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant-Charles de Gaulle
salonWho may we look to for a reprieve from these money-grubbers and looters? We cannot look to our neighbors and fellow citizens, for they are as dumb as posts. They complain about high taxes and then vote these morons into office anyway-Cody
salonNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.-Otto von Bismarck
salonPeople often ask me why I left the Senate, and I always tell them after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.-Fred Thompson
salonNo one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.-Harry Browne
salonPoliticians are politicians all of the time -- whether they're helping themselves to an extra-serving of farm-subsidy bacon, writing new laws about when their opponents can and can't run ads about them or appointing bureaucrats to enforce those laws. ... There are no angels at the FEC. There aren't any in Congress or at the White House. And the sooner arrogant reformers like Sen. McCain and Fred Wertheimer realize that they're no angels either, the better for all of us -- and for the Constitution-Ryan Sager
salonFor those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable-Dr Donald Boudreaux
salonWhenever the government causes a crisis, Congress and the president of the United States will almost surely give even more power and authority to the agency that is most responsible for the calamity-Willam L Anderson
salonGiving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator-Tim Barber
salonSome years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.Charley Reese
salonI respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.-Roger Ebert, from a tavern wall
salonNo one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices-Edward R Murrow
humanbeingIt is the mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.We are seeing what is before us. John Bradshaw
salonThe Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital-Bill Maher
salon'Don't be like a blind dog in a meat house-John Barry who invented wd40
salonIm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I dont think anyone really knows. Youll either find out or not when you get there, until then theres no point thinking about it.-Brad Pitt
salonThere is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.-Samuel Adams
salonIf we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed-Thomas Jefferson
salonCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ---First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
salonKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.-James Madison
salonFighting evil is good. Just sort of tripping and spilling coffee on evil's shoes is pretty stupid.-Xopher
salon[The people] Had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Would it not be eaiser in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another? -Bertolt Brecht from The Solution
salonSome people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that-George Carlin
salonPolitics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it-Finley Peter Dunne
salonA fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case-Finley Peter Dunne
salonTrust everybody, but cut the cards-Finley Peter Dunne
salonA man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer & remains at large-Finley Peter Dunne
salonAn appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court-Finley Peter Dunne
salonThere is one thing to be said in favor of drink, and that is that it has caused many a lady to be loved that otherwise might have died single-Finley Peter Dunne
salonSwearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting-Finley Peter Dunne
salonYou can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think-Finley Peter Dunne
salonAlcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts-Finley Peter Dunne
salonComfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable-Finley Peter Dunne
salonFreedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while-Finely Peter Dunne
salonLike most poets, preachers, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusion at a spark of evidence-Finley Peter Dunne
salonThe first thing to have in a library is a shelf. From time to time, this can be decorated with literature. But the shelf is the main thing-Finley Peter Dunne
salontrouble not myself about the manner of future existence. I content myself with believing, even to positive conviction, that the power that gave me existence is able to continue it, in any form and manner he pleases, either with or without this body; and it appears more probable to me that I shall continue to exist hereafter than that I should have had existence, as I now have, before that existence began.-Thomas Paine
salonThis is Meryl Streep's World... and we just live in it -anon
salon" 'In God We Trust' excludes and treats as outsiders the millions of adult Americans, including as many as 15% of all adults, who are not religious, i.e., atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers, none of whom possesses a belief in a god; the mandated language diminishes nonbelievers by making god-belief synonymous with citizenship."-FFR Foundation
salonIf pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side-Orson Scott Card
salonLife in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.-Butch Hancock
salonYou should never ask a man where he's from. If he's from Texas, he's gonna tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
salonI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.-Isaac Newton
salonTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.-Isaac Newton
salonIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything. -Isaac Newton
salonI can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. -Isaac Newton
salonIf I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton
salonWhether or not you believe in God, you should live your life with love, kindness, compassion, mercy and tolerance while trying to make the world a better place. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will have made a positive impact on those around you. If there is a benevolent God reviewing your life, you will be judged on your actions and not just on your ability to blindly believe, when there is a significant lack of evidence of any one god's existence. -Agnostic Atheism Wager
salonIn conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. "What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong?" she asked. "I mean, what if -- uh -- when the time comes, you should meet Him? What will you say?" Russell was delighted with the question. His bright, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contemplated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, "Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.'" -Bertrand Russell
salonThe church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!-Frederick Douglass
salonThe President of the United States summons the nation to church on Thanksgiving Day to give thanks to "Almighty God" for the abundant harvest and all other blessings. But what has Almighty God -- I have no desire to appear irreverent -- what has Almighty God as a personal being to do with the harvests? If it is he who produces our crops, then being Almighty there should never be a failure of crops. But since crops frequently fail, it follows that there is no Almighty person in charge of them -- unless he brings failure purposely. Therefore, if God is to be thanked for large crops, he must be blamed when the crops are a failure. . . . If God sends the rain and the sunshine which develops and ripens our wheat, who sends the storms and the insects which destroy much of it? And if he sends both, then why not thank him for one and blame him for the other?-John Dietrich
salonLive a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.-Marcus Aurelius
salonQuestion with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.-Thomas Jefferson
salonTruth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived-Oscar Wilde
salon"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."-Seneca
salonAnd even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would it be James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith. Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount -- a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? We -- so, before we get carried away, let's read our Bibles now. Folks haven't been reading their Bible. -Barack Obama
salonThink what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. -- Barbara Jordan
salonA popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives-James Madison
salonEverything that annoys us about others can help us to understand ourselves-Carl Jung
salonIf there are those who say you have lost your way, tell them you changed direction and forgot to update them-Perry Fair
salonI have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it- George Carlin
salon"As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else."-Meryl Streep
salonThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.-Eckhardt Tolle
salonA cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern-Edgar A. Shoaff
salonWhen we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools-William Shakespeare-King Lear
salonMen hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious-Edgar Saltus
salonHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence-Aristotle
salonWe tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have-Keonig
salonWhat is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good-Artistotle
salon"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe." -Thomas Carlyle
salonI feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.-Pablo Casals
salon"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do." -William Ellery Channing
salonThe ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth..." -Albert Einstein
salonI like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing-Agatha Christie
salonEthics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.-Albert Schweitzer
salonThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle-Albert Einstein
salonLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death-Anais Nin
salonHow we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives-Annie Dillard
salonLove life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back-Arthur Rubenstein
salonHow is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.-Barry Lopez
salonLife's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are-Bernice Johnson Reagon
salonNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it-Buckminster Fuller
salonMy life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?-Charles Schulz
salonWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other-Chinese PRoverb
salonI love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer-Colette
salonThat it will never come again is what makes life so sweet-Emily Dickinson
salonLove doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile-Franklin P Jones
salonA terrorist set fire to his own trousers, suffering eyewateringly painful burns to what Australian cricket commentators sometimes refer to as the "groinal area", and nobody seems to be laughing. What's wrong with us?-Bruce Schneier
salonAnybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it." -Margaret Atwood
salon“There’s no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department on Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.”-Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


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