Pedantry is properly the overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Swift.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
François de la Rochefoucauld
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Ursula le Guin
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
--Frank L. Stanton
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
--Voltaire
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
--Aldous Huxley
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
--Winston Churchill
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Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
Vengeance has no foresight.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
-- Benjamin Franklin
There will be vice as long as there are men.
-- Tacitus
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
-- Ho Chi Minh
We make WAR that we may live in peace. Aristotle
I know WAR as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. Douglas Macarthur
The X-Men are hated, feared and despised collectively by humanity for no other reason than that they are mutants. So what we have here, intended or not, is a book that is about racism, bigotry and prejudice.
Uncanny X-Men writer Chris Claremont, 1982
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes a long time to become young.
-- Pablo Picasso
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.
-- Carey Williams
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
-- Ancient Proverb
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
-- John Newton
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
-- Christian Dior
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
-- Alan Watts
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Clary, want to start the next one?????
Anyone?????
Things that might frighten people: -
Anacondas
Examinations (audits) of their tax returns by the IRS.
We're up to F, Mathos old boy. :wink:
Dinosaurs
