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| Submitted by: now |
| The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism
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| Attributed to: Sir William Osler, M.D. |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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| Attributed to: Harlan Ellison (with thanks to Lou Estey) |
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| Submitted by: Napoli |
| Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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| Attributed to: Kahlil Gibran |
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| Submitted by: Apashiol |
| We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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| Attributed to: H.L. Mencken |
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| Submitted by: Rat Bytes |
| A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it.
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| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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| Attributed to: Alan Coren, Seems like old times |
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| Submitted by: Jonathan |
| Truth is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear
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| Attributed to: Mahatma Ghandi |
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| Submitted by: Jonathan |
| Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue
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| Attributed to: Mahatma Ghandi |
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| Submitted by: Maisie |
| Confidence is the feeling a person has before he fully understands the situation |
| Attributed to: Maisie |
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| Submitted by: sir_bonvolio |
| Overconfidence is the greatest enemy
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| Attributed to: Yoshimitsu (we think) |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| Entia no sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem |
| Attributed to: William of Occam |
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| Submitted by: keyshawn632 |
| Everyone has a different vision of a perfect world.
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| Attributed to: Marge Simpson - of The Simpsons; episode AABF18 -They Saved Lisa's Brain. |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| Once you master yourself there is no need to master anything else.
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| Attributed to: Ketan Patel [Futurologist] |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| Go find that mirror
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| Attributed to: Last line in the chapter God-I-Like (The) |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutly necessary |
| Attributed to: William of Occam |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
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| Attributed to: A. Non |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. |
| Attributed to: Max Ehrmann, Desiderata |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Imagine a world where there are no hypothetical situations
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| Attributed to: One of many sources is The O’Byrne Files |
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| Submitted by: Seattlegal |
| What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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| Attributed to: (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) |
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| Submitted by: Seattlegal |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
| Attributed to: Albert Einstein |
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| Submitted by: chatter_box8 |
| All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays
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| Attributed to: Cathy Ladman |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| The habitual pattern of thought stands in the way of other impressions.
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| Attributed to: Patanjali, Sutras - verse 1:50 |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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| Attributed to: Dag Hammarskjold |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness
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| Attributed to: Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Submitted by: Gouranga das |
| To politicians Gandhi was a saint, to saints he was a politician
Jivaatma.
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| Attributed to: Gouranga das |
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| Submitted by: chatter_box8 |
| Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product
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| Attributed to:
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 |
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| Submitted by: ragin'glow-worm |
| It needs a subtle mind to grasp subtleties
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| Attributed to: ragin'glow-worm |
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| Submitted by: chatter_box8 |
| Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned
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| Attributed to: Anon |
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| Submitted by: ragin'glow-worm |
| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusion from insufficient premises.
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| Attributed to: Samuel Butler |
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| Submitted by: mark smith |
| A fool is not known untill he speaks
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| Attributed to: Old Bengali proverb |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| An opinion that is not examined is not worth holding.
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| Attributed to: aged hippy |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace
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| Attributed to: Jimi Hendrix |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
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| Attributed to: Chuck Reid |
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| Submitted by: The Enlightened One |
| Chicks are like waves as soon as you find a good one they dump you
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| Attributed to: Surfers faith |
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| Submitted by: Kai Ski |
| The final obstacle is the belief that there is an obstacle
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| Attributed to: Kai Ski |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Consider the ignorance of the average fundamentalist. Then realize that, by definition, fully half of them must be even dumber than that!
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| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Maisie |
| Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
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| Attributed to: Maisie |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| We all have the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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| Attributed to: AOL Hometown |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement
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| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Allan W Janssen |
| If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead
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| Attributed to: Johnny Carson |
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| Submitted by: Allan W Janssen |
| Consciousness is the physical manifestation of God within us
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| Attributed to: Allan W Janssen |
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| Submitted by: Rat Bytes |
| Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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| Attributed to: Douglas Adams |
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| Submitted by: Gouranga das |
| To be sucessful in material life think that you are going to live forever.To be sucessful in spiritual life know that you can die at any moment!
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| Attributed to: Canaka Pandit.300bc |
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| Submitted by: blondeno21 |
| You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
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| Attributed to: Frank Crane |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| The habitual pattern of thought stands in the way of other impressions.
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| Attributed to: Patanjali, Sutras, verse 1:50 |
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| Submitted by: Yahweh |
| Ask not for salvation from an invisible and impalpable 'god' that cannot hear you. Instead, listen to your fellow man. They can hear you, and make the change with you.
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| Attributed to: Yahweh |
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| Submitted by: blondeno21 |
| Not all who wander are lost.
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| Attributed to: J.R.R. Tolkein |
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| Submitted by: Apple Pie |
| The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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| Attributed to: Oscar Wilde |
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| Submitted by: AD9 |
| I wasn't lying- I was willingly participating in a campaign of misinformation
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| Attributed to: Fox Mulder (The X-Files) |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| Experience — a much abused word, nowadays
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| Attributed to: aged hippy |
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| Submitted by: clabhdhu |
| The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.
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| Attributed to: John Mortimer, from "Where There's a Will". |
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| Submitted by: Joujou |
| The the distance one must go to find solution to a problem, is the distance between their knee to the floor. Prayers move mountains, God listens to all.
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| Attributed to: Joujou |
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| Submitted by: Pete Smith |
| Politician, flag & priest. In all the world I love them least. When nations wage their bloody wars, 'tis they alone have been the cause.
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| Attributed to: Pete Smith |
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| Submitted by: Igottapee |
| Human relations are for self-revelation, not self-gratification. People, especially true friends, are mirrors in which we begin to discover ourselves
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| Attributed to: H.F.Weekley |
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| Submitted by: Bugbear |
| There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organisation. If there are such things as angels, hope that they are organised along the lines of the Mafia
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| Attributed to: Kurt Vonnegut |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| There is no good or evil, there is only power
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| Attributed to: J. K. Rowling |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely
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| Attributed to: Lord Acton |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
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| Attributed to: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) |
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| Submitted by: Igottapee |
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Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day
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| Attributed to: Thaddeus Golas |
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| Submitted by: Clabhdhu |
| Brute force without wisdom falls by its own weight. |
| Attributed to: Horace |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to build bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe is winning.
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| Attributed to: Rich Cook |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless |
| Attributed to: Aged Hippy |
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| Submitted by: Dwayne |
| I am so broke that I can't afford to pay attention
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| Attributed to: Church of cash (dot com) |
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| Submitted by: Karna |
| To try is to risk failure.........not to try is to guarantee it |
| Attributed to: Karna |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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| Attributed to: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973) |
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| Submitted by: chatter_box8 |
| Sometimes, I wish life had subtitles...
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| Attributed to: chatter_box8 |
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| Submitted by: Michael H |
| No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.
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| Attributed to: A chapter heading from the book: Patton's Principles, by Porter B. Williamson |
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| Submitted by: Simlin |
| Accept what you cannot change, change what you cannot accept |
| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is quite another.
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| Attributed to: John Bouroughs, Journal, Oct. 24, 1907 |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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| Attributed to: His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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| Submitted by: now |
| Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.
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| Attributed to: Thich Nhat Hanh |
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| Submitted by: Rat_bytes |
| Since when did people need proof for beliefs anyway
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| Attributed to: Rat_bytes |
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| Submitted by: Bugbear |
| Send lawyers, guns and money, and get me out of here.
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| Attributed to: Bugbear |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Do not look at the deeds of others, but be worthy masters of your own. |
| Attributed to: Vissarion |
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| Submitted by: Napoli |
| Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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| Attributed to: Confucius |
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| Submitted by: Igottapee |
| Human relations are for self-revelation, not self-gratification. People, especially true friends, are mirrors in which we begin to discover ourselves.
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| Attributed to: H.F.Weekley |
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| Submitted by: Seattlegal |
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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| Attributed to: Thomas Carlyle |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| When did I realize I was God?
Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
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| Attributed to: Peter O' Tool |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. |
| Attributed to: Rita Rudner |
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| Submitted by: Mary |
| Why put your faith in love, if love doesn't give you faith?
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| Attributed to: Mary |
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| Submitted by: morpheus |
| Any belief in an ideology based on the metaphysical is a testament to man's limitless imagination.
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| Attributed to: morpheus |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Understanding is a lot like sex. It's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally.
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| Attributed to: Frank Oppenheimer |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
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| Attributed to: Mark Twain |
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| Submitted by: Napoli |
| I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. |
| Attributed to: Doug McLeod |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
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| Attributed to: Lisa Alther |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Proving that a circle is round is, in my considered opinion, a waste of time.
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| Attributed to: Aged Hippy |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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| Attributed to: Ralph Hodgson |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| Knowledge is like oil to the troubled waters of belief.
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| Attributed to: aged hippy |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
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| Attributed to: Amelia Earhart |
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| Submitted by: now |
| Patriotism is to love ones country all the time, and the government when they deserve it.
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| Attributed to: Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain |
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| Submitted by: Cyclop |
| Ignorance is like a cube of salt: When one tastes of it, one becomes thirsty. But if instead one remains hungry, then one is stupid by default.
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| Attributed to: Cyclop |
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| Submitted by: Sneetches |
| Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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| Attributed to: George Orwell |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
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| Attributed to: Erwin Schrodinger |
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| Submitted by: clabhdhu |
| The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant than their sources. |
| Attributed to: John Mortimer |
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| Submitted by: aged hippy |
| Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.
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| Attributed to: His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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| Submitted by: OjDocs |
| Never meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup
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| Attributed to: Bumper sticker |
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| Submitted by: Rat_bytes |
| Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
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| Attributed to: Rat_bytes |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| I have found that you can achieve more with a gun and a smile than with just a smile
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| Attributed to: Al Capone |
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| Submitted by: Karna |
| Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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| Attributed to: Karl Marx |
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| Submitted by: jrhic |
| There are many doors I have yet to open, and many windows to look through... Going forward may not be the answer, so maybe I should just go back.
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| Attributed to: From the song Ultrasonic Sound, the Matrix |
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| Submitted by: David |
| One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required. |
| Attributed to: William of Ockham |
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| Submitted by: Rat Bytes |
| The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
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| Attributed to: Delo McKown |
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| Submitted by: Sir Bonvolio |
| If you think education is dangerous then try ignorance |
| Attributed to: Graham (Friend of Sir B) |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
| Attributed to: Albert Einstein |
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| Submitted by: Dreamtime |
| Creation is a work in progress
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| Attributed to: Dreamtime |
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| Submitted by: clabhdhu |
| Carpe Diem… and put as little trust as you can in the morrow
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| Attributed to: Horace |
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| Submitted by: enlightenment |
| Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur |
| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: now |
| Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence |
| Attributed to: Donald Rumsfield |
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| Submitted by: thebadangel |
| There's no such word as |
| Attributed to: thebadangel |
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| Submitted by: Bugbear |
| Next time will be better |
| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: T.S.Khwaja |
| Suffering creates that necessity which is the mother of all inventions
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| Attributed to: Mirza Tahir Ahmad |
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| Submitted by: Clabhdhu |
| Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
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| Attributed to: (We think) somewhere on the www.monbiot.com site |
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| Submitted by: thebadangel |
| I don't see the point of killing myself when life is invariably fatal
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| Attributed to: Paraphrased from a post by thebadangel |
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| Submitted by: Martyn |
| Whatever I ask my computer to do it usually does something completely different. |
| Attributed to: My computer! |
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| Submitted by: Graeme R |
I put it to you that both you and I are atheists. It is just that I believe in one fewer gods than you.
When you finally come to understand why you don’t believe in all those other gods then you will understand why I don’t believe in yours.
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| Attributed to: Graeme’s mate Fred |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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| Attributed to: George Orwell |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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| Attributed to: Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964) Indian politician |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
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| Attributed to: The Buddha Guatama |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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| Attributed to: Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Submitted by: SailorC_2000 |
| It takes great stregnth to defeat someone, but even more to admit defeat. |
| Attributed to: SailorC_2000 |
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| Submitted by: seattlegal |
| I would rather be an optimist and a fool than be a pessimist and correct.
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| Attributed to: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American physicist |
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| Submitted by: Rat Bytes |
| Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.
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| Attributed to: Homer Simpson |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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| Attributed to: Bertrand Russell |
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| Submitted by: Sir Bonvolio |
| An apple a day keeps the doctor away......If you have a good enough aim that is.......
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| Attributed to: Rediscovered by Sir Bonvolio |
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| Submitted by: Legend |
| Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
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| Attributed to: Buddha |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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| Attributed to: Aristotle |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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| Attributed to: Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways (1965) |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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| Attributed to: Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
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| Attributed to: Frederick Douglass |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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| Attributed to: Carl Sandburg |
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| Submitted by: Napoli |
| Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Rat Bytes |
| Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
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| Attributed to: Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| A theologian is like a blind man in a dark room, searching for a black cat that isn't there - and finding it!
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| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Aged Hippy |
| Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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| Attributed to: Albert Einstein |
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| Submitted by: Unbeliever |
| Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
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| Attributed to: Emily Dickenson |
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| Submitted by: jrhic |
| Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, so stay wasted all the time, and have the time of your life! |
| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: Sir Bonvolio |
| All that I ask for this life is that when it is my time to go that it is FOR something and not OF something.
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| Attributed to: Ghost from The Matrix:Reloaded |
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| Submitted by: Blondeno |
| Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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| Attributed to: Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Submitted by: now |
| The Christian Right is neither Christian or right |
| Attributed to: Anon (Until we are told otherwise) |
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| Submitted by: now |
| Defiled by passion, the mind is not released. Defiled by ignorance,
wisdom does not develop.
Thus from the fading of passion is there release of awareness.
From the fading of ignorance is there release of wisdom.
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| Attributed to: Anguttara Nikaya |
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| Submitted by: now |
| By doing evil, one defiles oneself;
by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself.
Purity and impurity depend upon oneself:
no one can purify another.
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| Attributed to: Dhammapada 165 |
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