“Religion is such a great thing, It keeps you, you know, there’s something to be good about. You want to be good; you want to…It’s so important. And I don’t know if it’s explained. Right. I don’t know if I’m explaining it right now, but when you have something like that, you want to be good. You want to go to heaven, okay? You want to go to heaven.”
“If you don’t have heaven, you almost say, ‘Oh, what’s what’s the reason?'”
“‘Why do I have to be good? Let’s not be good. What difference does it make?'”
The Donald should apply this quote from Psalm 131:1, where we find this from King David; "O LORD, my heart is not proud, and my eyes are not haughty; And I do not involve myself in great matters, Or in matters too marvelous for me."
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.” - Neal Stephenson
"I have never seen a cigar in need of a life preserver." -- Mark Twain
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be visited just enough to clothe them with memories and not impossible desires, while yet they remained ordinarily as inaccessible as the Moon. The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed "infinite riches" in what would have been to motorists "a little room". The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it "annihilates space". It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from travelling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there."
-C. S. Lewis
"We live in an age when rhetoric prevails and no one cares about the facts"
--Thomas Sowell
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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Curmudgeon alert; those two are memes, not quotes.
entschuldigen mir bitte.
Right you are. My humble apologies @peter4jc
The obstacle is the way.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein
"Its funny how when
Im loud, people tell
me to be quiet,
but when Im quiet,
people ask me whats
wrong with me."
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
--Charles Bukowski
One of the most poignant quotes on religion.
“Religion is such a great thing, It keeps you, you know, there’s something to be good about. You want to be good; you want to…It’s so important. And I don’t know if it’s explained. Right. I don’t know if I’m explaining it right now, but when you have something like that, you want to be good. You want to go to heaven, okay? You want to go to heaven.”
“If you don’t have heaven, you almost say, ‘Oh, what’s what’s the reason?'”
“‘Why do I have to be good? Let’s not be good. What difference does it make?'”
Donald Trump
The Donald should apply this quote from Psalm 131:1, where we find this from King David; "O LORD, my heart is not proud, and my eyes are not haughty; And I do not involve myself in great matters, Or in matters too marvelous for me."
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.” - Neal Stephenson
Would you say that holds true of people who live in Iowa?
Edit: that's my idea of subtlety.
Never
"Do you know what this cigar needs? A really huge band."
-No cigar smoker. Ever.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"I have never seen a cigar in need of a life preserver." -- Mark Twain
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The obstacle is the way.
"I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be visited just enough to clothe them with memories and not impossible desires, while yet they remained ordinarily as inaccessible as the Moon. The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed "infinite riches" in what would have been to motorists "a little room". The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it "annihilates space". It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from travelling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there."
-C. S. Lewis
"We live in an age when rhetoric prevails and no one cares about the facts"
--Thomas Sowell
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Success is a lousy teacher.
--Bill Gates
“A question ain’t really a question if you know the answer too.” – John Prine
"I can fix it. My brother's got a bitc-hin set of tools."
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.