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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
- C. K. Chesterton
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Linux Cookie: 249 of 1140 |
...difference of opinion is advantageious in religion. The several sects
perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity
attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the
introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned;
yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"
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Linux Cookie: 250 of 1140 |
Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to
be solved.
- Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank Herbert??)
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Linux Cookie: 251 of 1140 |
So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and
our doubts serve to reassure us.
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest
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Linux Cookie: 252 of 1140 |
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the
improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
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Linux Cookie: 253 of 1140 |
And do you not think that each of you women is an Eve? The judgement of God
upon your sex endures today; and with it invariably endures your position of
criminal at the bar of justice.
- Tertullian, second-century Christian writer, misogynist
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Linux Cookie: 254 of 1140 |
I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents
become better people as a result of practicing it.
- Joe Mullally, computer salesman
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Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.
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Linux Cookie: 256 of 1140 |
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry"
- An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
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Linux Cookie: 257 of 1140 |
How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored
power tools.
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