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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." - Thomas Jefferson

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man" - Bertrand Russell

"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - T. H. Huxley
 
"He who seeks the truth must doubt everything." Socrates

"In this world, you have to be called crazy for confirmation of your own sanity." David Icke

"Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. Was it really worth it?" Mahatma Gandhi

"A wise man knows how much something is worth. A fool only knows how much it costs." Confucius
 
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Robert A. Heinlein


I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein


It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein


One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein


Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
Robert A. Heinlein


Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein


When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert Heinlein

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Robert Heinlein

History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
Robert Heinlein

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
Robert Heinlein
 
"Christianity is the worst fraud ever perpetrated on the human species." The Atheist
 
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And

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and asked if the god I did not believe in was the protestant God or the catholic one." - Quentin Crisp
 
Look no further than our own forum:

Intelligent Design has no answers. It can only make itself look palatable by making evolution look less palatable. It lives in a cardboard refrigerator box and throws rocks through the windows of evolution's unfinished mansion. ---Beleth

What does not confirm Intelligent Design is the argument "I don't know why X exists. Therefore I do know why X exists. It exists because an Intelligent Designer wanted it to". This is not science: it's refusing to do science. ---Dr. Adequate

Your constant whining that everyone who disagrees with you is a fundamentalist has worn so thin the quarks are showing. ---Ichneumonwasp

Frankly, I think I am very glad that ontology is largely a pantload. ---Mercutio


~~ Paul
 
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." - Ayn Rand

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson

“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - Sinclair Lewis

"Sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here." - Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson's character), As Good As it Gets

"Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious." - Obi-Wan, Star Wars

"I find your lack of faith disturbing." - Darth Vader, Star Wars

"Asps. Very dangerous. You go first." - Sallah, Raiders of the Lost Ark
 
Beady said:
If we're allowed to cite ourselves, I like Beady's 3rd Law of Social Harmonics: "Before you begin, pee."

I defy you to describe a situation in which it doesn't apply.
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1. Going to the doctor's to have a urinalysis.

2. Participating in certain excretory sexual activities, or creating pornography of same.
 
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said, “Let us pray”. We closed our eyes.
When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
-Desmond Tutu
 
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"Listen, we talking about practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. We talking about practice." - Allen Iverson

"Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs! You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game." - Jim Mora

"The Bears are who we thought they were! That's why we took the d*mn field. Now if you want to crown 'em, then crown their ass. But they are who we thought they were, and we let 'em off the hook!" - Dennis Green after epic loss to the Bears on Monday Night Football.

"Michigan State is pounding Notre Dame and they took their foot off the accelerator. They mis-managed the clock, AGAIN! They didn't use their timeouts right, AGAIN! And they allowed an opponent to get into halftime and make adjustments, AGAIN!" - Mike Valenti after Michigan State's epic 2006 collapse against Notre Dame (This quote comes from the single greatest sports rant I have ever heard, which can be found here: http://cfbmedia.com/forum/index.php/topic,60679.0.html)

"Note to John L. Smith: learn the effen rules and understand that your timeouts are not like cell phone minutes! THEY DON'T CARRY OVER!" - Mike Valenti (same rant)
 
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I'm just about to update these pages, so if you wait a few hours, there'll be more of them ...
 
"Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity," Remy de Gourmont

Richard Feynman: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that."



"If you kiss Hank's ass he'll give you a million dollars"
 
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