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thinking guy wow
When you're...stepping over a guy on the sidewalk...does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?' Bill Hicks
thinking perfect want
And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, "This is my creation, perfect in every way... oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it... Now I have to create Republicans."
tired shoes bullshit
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
tattoo revolutionary-ideas worry
Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.
thinking cds political
If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
thinking use opinion
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you. Bertrand Russell
taken mean animal
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.
thinking race secret
Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
two views calendars
My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
two pressure firsts
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
teacher civilization groups
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
thinking
What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.
teacher two way
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
thinking omnipotence appreciate
I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
thinking skills people
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.
true-happiness godlike humans
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
two littles youth
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
thinking people mind
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
thinking people suffering
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
thinking power technique
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
truth discovery doe
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.
truth views speech
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
teacher father philosophy
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.
thinking giving important
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.
thinking mathematical absolutes
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
tyrants care lasts
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
thinking understanding firsts
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
teacher subtlety seems
A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
thinking punishment belief
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
time philosophy philosophical
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.
tolerance quality isms
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
thinking church three
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth. Charles R. Swindoll
team wins
The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs, Roy Oswalt