Friday, February 7, 2014

A couple of quotes

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  1. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ” — Arthur C. Clarke


    “If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”


    ― Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

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  2. “Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

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  4. "Well-behaved women seldom make history ..."

    ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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    1. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
      ― Brigham Young

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  5. "Most of the time - when you're crying, nobody notices your tears. When you're worried, nobody feels your pain. When you're happy, nobody sees you smile. But when you fart just one time ... "

    ~ Anonymous

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    1. “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
      ― Virginia Woolf

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  6. A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

    Richard Dawkins

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    1. Humm... a hypothesis of someone who can see no god around him and someone who no doubt couldn't fathom a world with a god... even if he were looking at it. Bang... and then their was light..

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    2. The internet is not an information highway, it is an electronic asylum filled with raving lunatics. Mike Royko

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    3. “We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
      ― Robert Wilensky

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    4. His first break in journalism came when, in order to avoid becoming a military policeman, he convinced an officer to let him work for the base newspaper. “It struck me that any goof could write a newspaper story,” he later recalled.

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  7. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

    Albert Einstein

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  8. “Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
    ― Barbara Bush

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  9. “Opportunity created by affordable, quality health insurance allows families in America to make a decision about how they will work, or if they will work,” Jay Carney said. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi applauded the law for freeing people from “job-lock.”

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