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"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
- Randall Munroe
"There may or may not be evil, but, by god, let no one doubt that there is stupid."
- Sebastian Lucier
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It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
— The Diary of Anne Frank, 1944
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
— Sir Winston Churchill
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"I can't come to work today. The voices in my head told me to stay home and clean the guns." - shirt
"I can't come to work today. The voices in my head told me to stay home and clean the guns." - shirtI need this shirt.
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"No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session." Benjamin Franklin
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"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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''If you're gonna show the world killing people is naughty, don't kill people to prove your point.
- Wilbur.T.Shenligham ''
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''Rise above them or break your back to their level - lead by example or die with the rest of them. No sympathy here from me, my dog nor the moon.
- Tony McKallum''
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''Hate. Teach them about hate. Love? Love is easy. Love hurts but hate gets them killed. Prepare them. ''
- Rev. Marshall Gibson
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Liberty is always unfinished business.-American Civil Liberties Union
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"There may or may not be evil, but, by god, let no one doubt that there is stupid."
- Sebastian Lucier
That's beautiful.
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That's beautiful."There may or may not be evil, but, by god, let no one doubt that there is stupid."
- Sebastian Lucier
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
-Samuel Adams
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams
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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
- Samuel Adams
"Beer and chocolate are two pleasures that should be enjoyed and savored, ... We knew that we were up to the challenge to create an unexpected brew that could perfectly complement a Valentine's Day meal or be given as a special gift."
- Samuel Adams
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"After a half century of neglect, America now has a railroad system that the Bolivians would be ashamed of. There isn't another project we could do that would have a greater impact on our oil consumption than fixing our rail system and restoring passenger service. It's a project that would put scores of thousands of people to work at good jobs at every work level from management to labor. It would benefit people in all ranks of society. The fact that we are not doing it, or even talking about it, shows how unserious we are. We are entering an era of energy scarcity. We can't afford to ignore this task any longer."
- James Howard Kunstler
"The Earth is blue [...] How wonderful. It is amazing" - Yuri Gagarin during the first manned orbital space flight
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"I've never wished a man dead, but I read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow but, due to common misappropriation of that quote, later said, "I've never killed anyone, save for idiots attributing my g$~-d~%n quote to Mark Twain."
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. - Winston Churchill, in response to concerns about allying with the Soviet Union
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. - Winston Churchill, in response to concerns about allying with the Soviet Union
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The dream of the future you see dissolves
And with time so does the apprehension
The world under sun is no exception
And all you see around you evolves
New traits in things familiar can be sensed
But futile is hope without fruition
The grief you knew begets no vision
The happiness you felt becomes regret
Winter fades and takes its cold and storm
Spring revives the world with love and warmth
But still the law: all things decay and age
Vanity itself won't dry your tears
And so you fear as your time draws near
The world will turn but never change.
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I want a d~$$ for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a f&$ for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down torest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn't possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a theif and never caught.
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way." - Caroline Gordon
"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore." - Terry Brooks
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - -Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic." - Aaron Allston
"Art is a sense of magic." - Stan Brakhage
"Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness." - Bill McCartney
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"I desperately want people to pay attention to me." - Anonymous.
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I want a d%#* for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a f%& for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down torest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn't possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a theif and never caught.
Good poem. Definitely not the time or place to post it.
"Vote Libertarian. It only feels kinky the first time." -bumper sticker
"Citizens are deceived en masse, but enlightened one at a time."
"No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session." Benjamin Franklin
Hee hee!
Ben Franklin rules!
"Vote Libertarian. It only feels kinky the first time." -bumper sticker
You say that like "kinky" is something bad. :)
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women (1918)
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -attributed to Benjamen Franklin (extremely unlikely)
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"I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan."
"You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry."
"They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen."
-The Kingfisher