It is foolish to argue with God if you believe in him, more
so if you do not.
I do not listen so much to whether or not you invoke God or
science so much as if you have a degree of humility in your voice.
Intelligence is merely a tolerance for ambiguity and a
reticence for judgment. Both of these can be acquired through practice.
If you want to make a person feel helpless, convince him he
is a victim. If you want to make him dangerous, tell him he belongs to a group
that is victimized.
There is no such thing as a good law, only a necessary one. Laws are the tombstones of ethics.
Over-tolerance has at its roots the same causes as
intolerance: the unwillingness to make complex moral decisions. One provides a
simple answer which says everything is permitted. The other establishes a black
and white view of the world that does not allow for intricacies.
To the creationist, the extinction of a species must be the
gravest of crimes.
Can one have pride without accomplishments? Faith without
acts? Confidence without hard work?
A starving man will eat rice intermixed with dirt rather
than trying to sort out each little grain. The hungry man will work a little
way towards purifying his intake. The gourmand will insist upon purity. Such it
is with art.
Never mistake democracy for America, liberty for a flag. Do
not confuse abstract ideas with reality.
It is naïve to think big government can solve all our
problems, foolish to believe the free market can.
I don’t care about your political persuasion so much as your
commitment to facts.
Society needs a moral authority, be it the church, the
government, etc. Today, the moral authority is the market, which preaches that
whatever is profitable is good.
When I was growing up in the 70's we didn't have things like
Facebook and Texting. If you wanted to send a message back then you had to
knock on ceilings or pipes or tie ribbons to trees.
I find it absolutely disgusting that they're finding
plastics in our great lakes' water. From now on I'm drinking only bottled
water.
We smugly act like we are superior to kids today, but guess
what? This is the world our generation has created. We were too busy pursuing
material goods to share our time with them, instead giving them electronic
devices to amuse them so that we wouldn't be distracted from the game or soap
opera we were watching on TV.
Isn't blaming government for the abuses it sometimes enables
kind of the same thing as blaming guns for the uses criminals put them to?
Our Founding Fathers established a government that was very
limited in its reach and its ability to tax. It was called The Articles Of
Confederation and it didn't work.
Speaking the truth means being hated and misunderstood by
both sides of the issue.
Creationists: living proof that the theory of evolution is
wrong.
It’s perfectly acceptable to mock the past for its
absurdities so long as it does not permit you to turn a blind eye to the
foolishness of the present.
The difference between Western hillbilly hatemongers and
Islamic extremists is actually pretty thin. Both like to marry girls before
they are old enough to make decisions of their own, both like to feel morally
superior despite being intellectually inferior, and both justify violence in
the name of God.
Certainty is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one. And
illusions that work are more practical than realism that doesn’t Cherish your
illusions, for they are the efficacious agents of their own achievement.
The present is the balance between yesterday and tomorrow.
He who is not on equal footing, cannot live adequately in the present.
There are only two things one need be concerned with: the
real and the possible.
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