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I find you lack of faith in the forth dithturbing.
- Darse ("Darth") Vader
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Linux Cookie: 422 of 1140 |
"All Bibles are man-made."
-- Thomas Edison
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Linux Cookie: 423 of 1140 |
"Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?"
"Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
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Linux Cookie: 424 of 1140 |
"The triumph of libertarian anarchy is nearly (in historical terms) at
hand... *if* we can keep the Left from selling us into slavery and the
Right from blowing us up for, say, the next twenty years."
-- Eric Rayman, usenet guy, about nanotechnology
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Linux Cookie: 425 of 1140 |
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein
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Linux Cookie: 426 of 1140 |
"I think Michael is like litmus paper - he's always trying to learn."
-- Elizabeth Taylor, absurd non-sequitir about Michael Jackson
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Linux Cookie: 427 of 1140 |
While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possession,
conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge,
we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies
that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense
of cosmic unity. When accounts of sudden religious conversions in TLEs
[temporal-lobe epileptics] are laid alongside the epiphanous revelations of
the religious tradition, the parallels are striking. The same is true of the
recent spate of alleged UFO abductees. Parsimony alone argues against invoking
spirits, demons, or extraterrestrials when natural causes will suffice.
-- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Neuropathology and the Legacy of Spiritual
Possession", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 3, pg. 255
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
- Samuel Goldwyn
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Linux Cookie: 429 of 1140 |
"We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement."
-- Richard J. Daley
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Linux Cookie: 430 of 1140 |
"With molasses you catch flies, with vinegar you catch nobody."
-- Baltimore City Councilman Dominic DiPietro
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