The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Believe the incredible, and you can do the impossible. It is our want of faith that holds us back, even as Peter.
When did he begin to sink? The Gospel gives us the reason. He took account of the winds, he began reading some surveys; it was established statistically that 99.44% of mankind cannot walk on water. All of the incredulities were in the winds. When he took his eyes off Christ, Peter began to sink."
Fulton J. Sheen
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
– Tom Robbins
“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”
– Charles Lindbergh
‘‘It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.’’
— Justice Robert H. Jackson
‘‘The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man.’’
— attributed to Horatio Bunce in Sockdolager
‘‘You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.’’
— Charles A. Beard
‘‘Four out of five politicians surveyed prefer unarmed, ignorant peasants.’’
— Unknown
‘‘ They, the makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.’’
‘‘Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding’’
— Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
‘‘The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ... and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.’’
— St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803
‘‘Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States’’
— Noah Webster, 1888
‘‘Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? ... If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?’’
— Patrick Henry
‘‘No slave shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be forfeited to him who will seize them.’’
— A Bill Concerning Slaves, Virginia Assembly, 1779
‘‘No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements).’’
— Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776. Papers 1:353
‘‘To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...’’
— Richard Henry Lee, 1787
"Free men own guns. Slaves don't."
- bumper sticker
"Free men own guns. Slaves don't."
- bumper sticker
Why I remember a once free family that went on about how they didn't need to own guns and sure enough they were slaves by the next morning. Got 'em working at my taffy plantation ever since. When will people learn?
Why I remember a once free family that went on about how they didn't need to own guns and sure enough they were slaves by the next morning. Got 'em working at my taffy plantation ever since. When will people learn?"Free men own guns. Slaves don't."
- bumper sticker
When indeed? We never think it will happen to us. Damn you taffy slaver!!!!
When indeed? We never think it will happen to us. Damn you taffy slaver!!!!Why I remember a once free family that went on about how they didn't need to own guns and sure enough they were slaves by the next morning. Got 'em working at my taffy plantation ever since. When will people learn?"Free men own guns. Slaves don't."
- bumper sticker
MWAH HA HA H... uh... ow... I think I just pulled a tooth out of my mouth.
“The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink toward mediocrity.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-94)
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
– Sir Ranulph Fiennes
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
– Sir Ranulph Fiennes
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Good set of quotes, Steven!
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"It's nobody's business who you love. It's nobody's business who you love, where you love, what equipment you might use... It's interesting, but it's nobody's business."
- Roy Zimmerman, on same-sex marriage
"Sarah Palin says she knows foreign policy because Alaska is next to Russia? Really? That's like trying to toast a bagel in your freezer."
- Roy Zimmerman, on the 2008 presidential elections
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"You're telling me that the only reason that people should be nice to each other is because they are afraid of some inescapable sky-daddy with an inevitable punishment? That if we don't fear this indomitable beast coming after us, that we have no reason to be nice to each other?"
- L. Aron Nelson, in a response to the argument of a religious advocate that morals come from a divine being.
"Man has a love for fire. Napalm, white phosphorus, promethium, oil, gasoline, meltas, plasmas, firestorms, incendiaries, firepower, fireline, flamethrower, fireteam, firefighter, the flames of war, fire, fire, fire. What else could be said to have benefited as much from man as fire? What other element has been defended, nursed, tutored, fed, and loved more than fire? Our cities, our books, our people, our enemies, our friends, our dead, our living, our greatest works and most heinous feats; all of them, fed to the ever hungry flames, and there it is. Years of brilliant minds worked on that one. For warfare, for country, for humanity? No. We wanted to see what fire, raw unchained flame, could do."
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"There has been a lot of criticism about us Boomers, but I think we can say in all modesty that, despite our flaws in other areas, when it comes to parenting, we have done a truly horrible job. In an effort to make life perfect for our children, we have ruined them. Instead of teaching them that they have to work for nice things, we've simply given them everything. We have raised a generation of young people who believe they're the center of the universe."
- Dave Barry
"There has been a lot of criticism about us Boomers, but I think we can say in all modesty that, despite our flaws in other areas, when it comes to parenting, we have done a truly horrible job. In an effort to make life perfect for our children, we have ruined them. Instead of teaching them that they have to work for nice things, we've simply given them everything. We have raised a generation of young people who believe they're the center of the universe."
- Dave Barry
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:)"There has been a lot of criticism about us Boomers, but I think we can say in all modesty that, despite our flaws in other areas, when it comes to parenting, we have done a truly horrible job. In an effort to make life perfect for our children, we have ruined them. Instead of teaching them that they have to work for nice things, we've simply given them everything. We have raised a generation of young people who believe they're the center of the universe."
- Dave Barry
I f@!&ing hate my generation, and I've lost respect for my parents' generation because of it.
I f#~@ing hate my generation, and I've lost respect for my parents' generation because of it.:)"There has been a lot of criticism about us Boomers, but I think we can say in all modesty that, despite our flaws in other areas, when it comes to parenting, we have done a truly horrible job. In an effort to make life perfect for our children, we have ruined them. Instead of teaching them that they have to work for nice things, we've simply given them everything. We have raised a generation of young people who believe they're the center of the universe."
- Dave Barry
For what it's worth I had some great workers at the gaming stores I managed who were quite young. In fact my daughter married one, and I'm very proud of my daughter and son in law.
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For what it's worth I had some great workers at the gaming stores I managed who were quite young. In fact my daughter married one, and I'm very proud of my daughter and son in law.I f#~@ing hate my generation, and I've lost respect for my parents' generation because of it.
Well that's good, at least.
"Dude, my turds have more muscles than you do."
True life quote.
Aldeth, the Paladin/Shadowbane Inquisitor/Rogue, talking about the new hire at the Gold Goblin Inn. The new hire is one of the priestesses of Calistria, wanting a position of "horizontal pleasures specialist".
Aldeth, take one.
"We should accommodate the whore."
You can't make this stuff up.
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“A book worth reading is worth buying.”
– John Ruskin
Some random Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:
190: Hear all; trust nothing
98: Every man has his price
48: The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife
8: Small print leads to large risk
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"The god that our neighbors believe in is essentially an invisible person. He is a creator deity who created the universe to have a relationship with one species of primate--lucky us. And he's got galaxy upon galaxy to attend to, but he's especially concerned with what we do. And he's especially concerned with what we do naked."
- Sam Harris
