OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

"Be so good they can't ignore you" -*Steve Martin

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing" -*Maria Mitchell

"Don't fight forces, use them" -*R. Buckminster Fuller

"Be so bad they can't ignore you" - Mason Masters

Avec leurs grands rires avec leurs façons De toujours remettre le monde en question Ce sont eux qui font les révolutions Les enfants terribles ont toujours raison Soyez terribles terribles Soyez terribles les enfants

(Jean Ferrat - Les Enfants Terribles)

With their big laughs and their way To always put the world into question It's them who make the revolutions The terrible children are always right Be terrible, terrible Be terrible, children

People do what's most necessary to them at the time...

I donno who made that one up. But George Clooney said in the 3 Kings movie... I think.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

-- Francis of Assisi

I like the last one more tho...

Let's bring on the QUOTES!!!!!!

Don't ask, what the government can do for you. Ask, why it does not do it!

- A German syndicalist unionist.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski Don't ask, what the government can do for you. Ask, why it does not do it! - A German syndicalist.

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."

Emma Goldman

So, let .gov .edu LOL

Originally Posted by jamison20000e let .gov .edu LOL

Precede this by a thread calling

edu->wrap(&gov);

Do not expect to join() anytime soon.

sucks = puts"standardized education"
gets.chomp

The OP wants what the OP wants

And yes, I have adapted that from a well known quote. AFAIK, there is no "official" quote that goes like that.

"If you're going to piss like a puppy stay on the porch" --Burt Gummer (from: Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell)

"It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something."
Jack Handey

“When you need to wear a hat, do it in the privacy of your own home.” (Forrest Gump / Winston Groom)

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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The true horror of religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. If you wake up in the morning thinking that saying a few latin words over your pancakes transforms them into the body of Elvis Presley, you have lost your mind. If you believe more or less the same thing about a cracker and the body of Jesus, you are just a Catholic.

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
― Sam Harris

“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

The only sense to make of tragedies like this is that terrible things can happen to perfectly innocent people. This understanding inspires compassion.

Religious faith, on the other hand, erodes compassion. Thoughts like, 'this might be all part of God’s plan,' or 'there are no accidents in life,' or 'everyone on some level gets what he or she deserves' - these ideas are not only stupid, they are extraordinarily callous. They are nothing more than a childish refusal to connect with the suffering of other human beings. It is time to grow up and let our hearts break at moments like this.”
― Sam Harris

All by Sam Harris.

It is not people's beliefs that you need to worry about; it is the way they act on them.