One of my faves:
Quote (Sioux @ Fri @ 22 May 2009 @ 11:24)
You cannot disprove God with science. Thats like disproving cupcakes are delicious with math.
"Patriotism is the belief that proximity of certain dirt to your mother's womb makes you better, than somebody else."
- Stephan Molyneaux, Freedomain Radio
"They are out there, I think to myself, those ordinary citizens who have grown up in the midst of all the political and cultural battles, but who have found a way- in their own lives, at least -to make peace with their neighbors, and themselves. I imagine the white Southern who growing up heard his dad talk about niggers this and niggers that but who has struck up a friendship with black guys at the office and is trying to teach his own son different, who thinks discrimination is wrong but doesn't see why the son of a black doctor should get admitted into law school ahead of his own son. Or the former Black Panther who who decided to go into real estate, bought a few buildings in the neighborhood, and is just as tired of drug dealers in front of those buildings as he is of the bankers who won't give him a loan to expand his business. There's the middle-aged feminist who still morns her abortion, and the Christian woman who paid for her teenager's abortion, and the millions of waitresses and temp secretaries and nurse's assistants and Wal-Mart associates who hold their breathe every single month in the hope that they'll have enough money to support the children that they did bring into the world.
I imagine they are waiting for a politics with the maturity to balance idealism and realism, to distinguish between what can and cannot be compromised, to admit the possibility that the other side might sometimes have a point. They don't always understand the arguments between right and left, conservative and liberal, but they recognize the difference between dogma and common sense, responsibility and irresponsibility, between those things that last and those that are fleeting.
They are out there, waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them."
- p51-52 Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope"
"Many difficulties that nature throws our way, may be smoothed over by the exercise of intelligence."
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"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
- John Adams, 1735-1826
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
-Ayn Rand
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
-Ayn Rand
“Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.” - Kamran Hamid