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

Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

Daffy Duck

Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush

Terry Pratchet on dying of MS

Let's honor laborers. And the best way to do so is to get the government to stop using force against them.– David R. Henderson

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. ~ Karl Marx

I don't care, you know. Religion is stupid anyway. I mean, a virgin gets pregnant by a ghost! You would never get away with it in a divorce court, would you? ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there and finding it! ~ Oscar Wilde

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you are the pilot.

Micheal Althsuler

Let's get one thing straight ........!
I'm not!

Unknown gay person.

Faith is believing what you know ain't so. ~ Mark Twain

The question of how many courses of action are open to a person is, of course, very important. But it is a different question from that of how far in acting he can follow his own plans and intentions, to what extent the pattern of his conduct is of his own design, directed toward ends of which he has been persistently striving rather than toward necessities created by others in order to make him do what they want. Whether he is free or not does not depend on the range of choice but on whether he can expect to shape his course of action in accordance with his present intentions, or whether somebody else has power so as to manipulate the conditions as to make him act according to that person's will rather than his own.– Friedrich A. Hayek

Our DNA is 96% chimpanzee. Is that even worth arguing?! If I gave you a sandwich that was filled with 96% sh*t and 4% ham, would you be willing to consider that a ham sandwich?” ~Joe Rogan

“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” James Conant

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” --Erica Mann Jong

re: a response to the posting of RAHeinlen's epic statement that the only sin is unnecessarily hurting others.....

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H So, when would it be necessary to hurt others ? I say don't hurt others at all. If they're talking about punishment, it still doesn't make sense, because then: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" Mahatma Ghandi

Hola, TeXMeX, que tal... I can definitely help you with this.
Give me just a few moment's of your time to bitch-slap you mercilessly and use your torso for a makiwara. I will do this for free, and I guarantee you that somewhere in that brief space of time the answer will come to you.
And neither one of us will leave blind.

(I'm neither venting nor flaming here, honest. I have used a watered-down version of this approach on occasions, to demonstrate the nonsensical nature of the concept of "relative truth", and it is 100% effective, so far.)

“Inside the polling booth, every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.”-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Two Halves of Nothing is a Full Nothing.

Foghorn Leghorn.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk

sense

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Robert Frost

Christopher Hitchens: [on Islamophobia] "A phobic is a person suffering from irrational or uncontrollable dread. I don't choose to regard my own apprehensiveness about Muslim violence as groundless or illusory."