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by Jack GrantPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-H. L. Mencken
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas JeffersonNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
-Epictetus
I have too much compassion to be a conservative and too much sense to be a liberal.
-Stephen Millich
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
-James Madison
4th US president (1751 - 1836)
...being tough doesn’t require being stupid. It’s totally optional.
-Scott Adams
cartoonist and satirist
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
-H. H. Williams
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
-Peter da Silva
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The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
—Lazarus Long
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My greatest fear is that someone, somewhere, is happy that i’m sad.
By Rachel on 03.16.06 18:11