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The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of
the Force.
- Darth Vader
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When I left you, I was but the pupil.  Now, I am the master.
- Darth Vader
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"Well, well, well!  Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in
poison!  How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil?  Come
and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!"
- Alex in "Clockwork Orange"
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"There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a howling
away at the sons of his father and going blurp blurp in between as if it
were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts.  I could never
stand to see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one
was."
- Alex in "Clockwork Orange"
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186,000 Miles per Second.  It's not just a good idea.  IT'S THE LAW.
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Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
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Children begin by loving their parents.  After a time they judge them.
Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
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Single tasking: Just Say No.
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"Catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world."
- The Beach Boys
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"Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them
seemed to come from Texas."
- Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale"
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"I think trash is the most important manifestation of culture we have in my
lifetime."
- Johnny Legend
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Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading
statements, sooner or later the product will speak for itself.
- Hajime Karatsu
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In order to succeed in any enterprise, one must be persistent and patient.
Even if one has to run some risks, one must be brave and strong enough to
meet and overcome vexing challenges to maintain a successful business in
the long run.  I cannot help saying that Americans lack this necessary
challenging spirit today.
- Hajime Karatsu
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Memories of you remind me of you.
- Karl
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Life.  Don't talk to me about life.
- Marvin the Paranoid Anroid
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On a clear disk you can seek forever.
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The world is coming to an end--save your buffers!
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grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.
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It is your destiny.
- Darth Vader
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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at
your side.
- Han Solo
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
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How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

"That's a known problem... don't worry about it."
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To be is to program.
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To program is to be.
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I program, therefore I am.
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People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange
surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and
Fortran programs, for example.
- Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, Art of Prolog, MIT Press
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"I am your density."
  -- George McFly in "Back to the Future"
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"So why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here."
  -- Biff in "Back to the Future"
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The existence of god implies a violation of causality.
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"I may kid around about drugs, but really, I take them seriously."
- Doctor Graper
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Operating-system software is the program that orchestrates all the basic
functions of a computer.
- The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, September 15, 1987, page 40
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I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation,
indivisible,
with liberty
and justice for all.
- Francis Bellamy, 1892
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People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind
his ears.  I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on
them.
-- Steven Wright
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My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo of
the entire earth on it.  On the back it said:  "Wish you were here".
 -- Steven Wright
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You can't have everything... where would you put it?
-- Steven Wright
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I was playing poker the other night...  with Tarot cards.  I got a full
house and 4 people died.
-- Steven Wright
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You know that feeling when you're leaning back on a stool and it starts to
tip over?  Well, that's how I feel all the time.
-- Steven Wright
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I came home the other night and tried to open the door with my car
keys...and the building started up.  So I took it out for a drive.  A cop
pulled me over for speeding.  He asked me where I live...  "Right here".
-- Steven Wright
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"Live or die, I'll make a million."
-- Reebus Kneebus, before his jump to the center of the earth, Firesign
Theater
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The typical page layout program is nothing more than an electronic
light table for cutting and pasting documents.
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There are bugs and then there are bugs.  And then there are bugs.
- karl
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My computer can beat up your computer.
- karl
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Kill Ugly Processor Architectures
- karl
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Kill Ugly Radio
- Frank Zappa
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"Just Say No."   - Nancy Reagan

"No."            - Ronald Reagan
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I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.  It's
a very powerful emotion.  All children feel it.  In a first grade classroom
everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or
at least acknowledges it.  Something happens between first and twelfth
grade, and it's not just puberty.  Not only do the schools and the media not
teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring
sense of wonder.  Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling.  Poor
popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible
and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.  But there is a kind
of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the
good.  And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific
community ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and
second, the media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful.
Every newspaper in America has a daily astrology column.  How many have even
a weekly astronomy column?  And I believe it is also the fault of the
educational system.  We do not teach how to think.  This is a very serious
failure that may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons,
compromise the human future.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.  And
in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the
additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial
intelli- gence?" I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places
out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on.  And then I say it would
be astonishing to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of
course there is as yet no compelling evidence for it.  And then I'm asked,
"Yeah, but what do you really think?" I say, "I just told you what I really
think." "Yeah, but what's your gut feeling?" But I try not to think with my
gut.  Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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Repel them.  Repel them.  Induce them to relinquish the spheroid.
- Indiana University fans' chant for their perennially bad football team
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If it's working, the diagnostics say it's fine.
If it's not working, the diagnostics say it's fine.
- A proposed addition to rules for realtime programming
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   It is either through the influence of narcotic potions, of which all
primitive peoples and races speak in hymns, or through the powerful approach
of spring, penetrating with joy all of nature, that those Dionysian
stirrings arise, which in their intensification lead the individual to
forget himself completely.  .  .  .Not only does the bond between man and
man come to be forged once again by the magic of the Dionysian rite, but
alienated, hostile, or subjugated nature again celebrates her reconciliation
with her prodigal son, man.
- Fred Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries
between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional
experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal
and external perparation...to evoke a mystical experience according to plan,
so to speak...  I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of
providing materail aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a
deeper, comprehensive reality.  Such a use accords entirely with the essence
and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis
pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by
a change in our world view.  We shall have to shift from the materialistic,
dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a
new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the
experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate
nature and all of creation.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman
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Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and
related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences,
entails dangers that must not be underestimated.  Practitioners must take
into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability
to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being.  The
history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that
can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is
mistaken for a pleasure drug.  Special internal and external advance
preperations are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a
meaningful experience.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability
more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjution
with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder
child.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who
are prepared.
- Louis Pasteur
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core error - bus dumped
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If imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing when purchased, do not
use.
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"Come on over here, baby, I want to do a thing with you."
- A Cop, arresting a non-groovy person after the revolution, Firesign
Theater
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"Ahead warp factor 1"
- Captain Kirk
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   Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between
the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.

   "Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report.  "A barrier of water
vapor!  A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library!
A civilized race could not have stooped so low!  A civilized race would not
have..."

   It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes.

- Startide Rising, by David Brin
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Harrison's Postulate:
        For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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Mr. Cole's Axiom:
        The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant;
        the population is growing.
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Felson's Law:
        To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
        many is research.
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...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.  Most notably I have
ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old.  Well, I
haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected
it.  There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
prejudice and postjudice.  Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
looked at the facts.  Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards.  Prejudice
is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
mistakes.  Postjudice is not terrible.  You can't be perfect of course; you
may make mistakes also.  But it is permissible to make a judgment after you
have examined the evidence.  In some circles it is even encouraged.
- Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
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If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him
better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical
science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that
restored his health.
- Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde
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Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it
once.
-karl
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Sometimes, too long is too long.
- Joe Crowe
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
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"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst."
- Thomas Paine
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"I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be
sure."
- Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"
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"There is nothing so deadly as not to hold up to people the opportunity to
do great and wonderful things, if we wish to stimulate them in an active
way."
- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
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"...proper attention to Earthly needs of the poor, the depressed and the
downtrodden, would naturally evolve from dynamic, articulate, spirited
awareness of the great goals for Man and the society he conspired to erect."
- David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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"Athens built the Acropolis.  Corinth was a commercial city, interested in
purely materialistic things.  Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the
old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth."
- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry
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"Largely because it is so tangible and exciting a program and as such will
serve to keep alive the interest and enthusiasm of the whole spectrum of
society...It is justified because...the program can give a sense of shared
adventure and achievement to the society at large."
- Dr. Colin S. Pittendrigh, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the
moon represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race.
Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding
with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men
toward the goal.  In fact, the assembly of the scientific and military with
these human arguments creates such an overwhelming case that in can be
ignored only by those who are blind to the teachings of history, or who wish
to suspend the development of civilization at its moment of greatest
opportunity and drama.
- Sir Bernard Lovell, 1962, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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The idea of man leaving this earth and flying to another celestial body and
landing there and stepping out and walking over that body has a fascination
and a driving force that can get the country to a level of energy, ambition,
and will that I do not see in any other undertaking.  I think if we are
honest with ourselves, we must admit that we needed that impetus extremely
strongly.  I sincerely believe that the space program, with its manned
landing on the moon, if wisely executed, will become the spearhead for a
broad front of courageous and energetic activities in all the fields of
endeavour of the human mind - activities which could not be carried out
except in a mental climate of ambition and confidence which such a spearhead
can give.
- Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, 1962, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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Human society - man in a group - rises out of its lethargy to new levels of
productivity only under the stimulus of deeply inspiring and commonly
appreciated goals.  A lethargic world serves no cause well; a spirited world
working diligently toward earnestly desired goals provides the means and the
strength toward which many ends can be satisfied...to unparalleled social
accomplishment.
- Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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I do not believe that this generation of Americans is willing to resign
itself to going to bed each night by the light of a Communist moon...
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Life's the same, except for the shoes.
- The Cars
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Purple hum
Assorted cars
Laser lights, you bring

All to prove
You're on the move
and vanishing
- The Cars
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Could be you're crossing the fine line
A silly driver kind of...off the wall

You keep it cool when it's t-t-tight
...eyes wide open when you start to fall.
- The Cars
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Adapt.  Enjoy.  Survive.
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Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve.
- Anonymous
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be
lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
- Isaac Asimov
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And the crowd was stilled.  One elderly man, wondering at the sudden
silence, turned to the Child and asked him to repeat what he had said.
Wide-eyed, the Child raised his voice and said once again, "Why, the Emperor
has no clothes!  He is naked!"
- "The Emperor's New Clothes"
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"Those who believe in astrology are living in houses with foundations of
Silly Putty."
-  Dennis Rawlins, astronomer
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To date, the firm conclusions of Project Blue Book are:
   1. no unidentified flying object reported, investigated and evaluated
      by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our
      national security;
   2. there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air
      Force that sightings categorized as UNIDENTIFIED represent
      technological developments or principles beyond the range of
      present-day scientific knowledge; and
   3. there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized
      as UNIDENTIFIED are extraterrestrial vehicles.
- the summary of Project Blue Book, an Air Force study of UFOs from 1950
  to 1965, as quoted by James Randi in Flim-Flam!
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their
hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt,
without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only
in the God idea, not God Himself.
- Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and writer
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Kahlil Gibran
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Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
- Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit
in my name at a Swiss Bank.
- Woody Allen
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man.  Therefore, I affirm both.
Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.  Human unity
is the fulfillment of diversity.  It is the harmony of opposites.  It is
a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.
- Norman Cousins
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
- C. K. Chesterton
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...difference of opinion is advantageious in religion.  The several sects
perform the office of a common censor morum over each other.  Is uniformity
attainable?  Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the
introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned;
yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"
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Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to
be solved.
- Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank
Herbert??)
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So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide
and our doubts serve to reassure us.
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the
improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
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And do you not think that each of you women is an Eve?  The judgement of God
upon your sex endures today; and with it invariably endures your position of
criminal at the bar of justice.
- Tertullian, second-century Christian writer, misogynist
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I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents
become better people as a result of practicing it.
- Joe Mullally, computer salesman
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Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.
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"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry"
- An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
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How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored
power tools.
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How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
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How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb?

It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him.
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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 Jefferson
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant
Church, nor by any Church that I know of.  My own mind is my own Church.
- Thomas Paine
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God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
- Roger Williams
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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme
Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the
fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.  But we may hope
that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will
do away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and
genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.  Let us
restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which
liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.  And let us reflect that
having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind
so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political
intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody
persecutions.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.  Nowhere in
the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines,
and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.
- John Adams
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The 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
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As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion,
as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see;
but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have,
with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his
divinity.
- Benjamin Franklin
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I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have
gotten the hostages released.  I thank God they were satisfied with the
missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.
- Oliver North
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I believe 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.
- from John F.  Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial
Association September 12, 1960.
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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only
opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts
at rational thinking.  Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of
knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable.  Since the earliest
days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every
effort to liberate the body and mind of man.  It has been, at all times and
everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad
laws, bad social theories, bad institutions.  It was, for centuries, an
apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of
kings.
- H. L. Mencken
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The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes -- that it
leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere
effects -- this notion has no support in the plain facts.  If it could,
science would explain the origin of life on earth at once--and there is
every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow.
To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be
filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to
give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity....
- H. L. Mencken, 1930
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The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective
support, is really no evidence at all, for every recognizable emotion has
its opposite, and if one points one way then another points the other way.
Thus the familiar argument that there is an instinctive desire for
immortality, and that this desire proves it to be a fact, becomes puerile
when it is recalled that there is also a powerful and widespread fear of
annihilation, and that this fear, on the same principle proves that there is
nothing beyond the grave.  Such childish "proofs" are typically theological,
and they remain theological even when they are adduced by men who like to
flatter themselves by believing that they are scientific gents....
- H. L. Mencken
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There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon,
however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.  Soon
or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered
in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own
account.  The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly
probable.
- H. L. Mencken, 1930
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and
fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are
drifting side by side to our common doom.
- Clarence Darrow
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