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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
"Love your country, but never trust its government." -- Robert A. Heinlein... read more
STEVEN FISHMAN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
"People get what they deserve. Regardless of political party, if people support candidates who promote the Vaccine Holocaust, there will be 200 million dead Americans by 2030. If they support candidates who promote th... read more
THOMAS SOWELL QUOTE( culture / quotes )
"It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the U.S., if the govt can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officia... read more
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that you're bound to be okay because you're safely in the majority. -- Christopher Hitchens... read more
DENNIS GABOR QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Dennis Gabor... read more
HANNAH ARENDT QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. -- Hannah Arendt... read more
THOMAS PAINE QUOTE( culture / quotes )
LENIN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Vladimir Lenin... read more
AARON RODGERS QUOTE( culture / quotes )
If science can't be questioned ... it's propaganda. -- Quarterback Aaron Rodgers
Critically-thinking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a guest on the Pat McAfee Show this week and he spoke about Big Government/Big Pharma/Big Healthcare's lack of information on all... read more
DOSTOYEVSKY QUOTE( culture / quotes )
It's life that matters, nothing but life. The process of discovering. The everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky... read more
JOHN WAYNE QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid. -- John Wayne... read more
THOMAS MERTON QUOTE( culture / quotes )
People are constantly trying to use you to help them create the particular illusions by which they live. This is particularly true of the collective illusions which sometimes are accepted as ideologies. You must renounce and sacrifice the approval that is only a bribe enlisting your support of a col... read more
MIKE TYSON QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the face. -- Mike Tyson, former champion boxer... read more
WALT WHITMAN QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Keep your face always towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. -- Walt Whitman... read more
TODD WAGNER QUOTE( culture / quotes )
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth -- Todd Wagner... read more
SO-CALLED EXPERTS( culture / quotes )
Remember these when the news media holds someone up as an authority or expert in their attempt to make you go along with the program, whatever that program may be.
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. --... read more
STEPHEN COVEY QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Loyalty must not be a higher value than integrity... -- Stephen Covey... read more
H.L. MENCKEN QUOTES( culture / quotes )
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.... read more
RAND'S QUOTATIONS( culture / quotes )
From, obviously and properly enough, Rand Lindsly, rand skydiver.eng.sun.com, Take me back to loQtus! I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise -- W.C. Fields (1880-1946) He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human... read more
THEODORE ROOSEVELT QUOTE( culture / quotes )
LAURENCE J. PETER QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle... read more
BUCKMINSTER FULLER QUOTE( culture / quotes )
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller... read more
LEONARDO DAVINCI QUOTE( culture / quotes )
EDGAR ALLAN POE QUOTE( culture / quotes )
VAN MORRISON QUOTE( culture / quotes )
"Remember, those who are shutting down our economy haven't missed a paycheck since lockdown began. We are not in this together. -- Van Morrison... read more
BOB MARLEY QUOTE( culture / quotes )
ALLAN STEVO QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Beware of information obedient to the status quo. When information is obedient to a status quo, it deserves a special level of skepticism to avoid the bias known as confirmation bias, an easy bias to fall into. -- Allan Stev... read more
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. -- Laurie Halse Anderson... read more
WILLIAM ARTHUR HOLMES QUOTES( culture / quotes )
A novel is the fine art of never getting to the point.
Stay loose, keep moving, stay true to yourself... always.
All the lies we deal with can be disheartening until you realize life itself began with a lie or, if you prefer, a bit of creative fiction. A story. And, we all love a good story!... read more
ONE OF MY FAVORITE TWAIN QUOTES( culture / quotes )
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. -- Mark Twain... read more
CHARLES BUKOWSKI QUOTES( culture / quotes )
The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.... read more
EINSTEIN QUOTES( culture / quotes )
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
Our task as humans must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embra... read more
PROVERBS( culture / quotes )
The Fence There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold... read more
RUMI QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
I happen to think there is nothing wrong with grieving. In fact, it is required. But I know what he's saying. -- Ed.... read more
ALL QUOTES( culture / quotes )
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys infor... read more
LATEST DEEP THOUGHT( culture / quotes )
One way or another, in our own inimitable way, we all do to others what was done to us. -- William Arthur Holmes"Wow, that was deep -- William's internal critic... read more
QUOTE ON TOLERANCE( culture / quotes )
Total tolerance is not a virtue, it is a total lack of principles. - Plainsman 2016 And here are a couple more. Never trust a Republican with your PUBLIC LAND. Never trust a Democrat with your FIREARMS. --... read more
PUTTING WORDS IN MARK TWAIN'S MOUTH( culture / quotes )
Nice list: Putting Words in Mark Twain's MouthI wonder if any of these are on that list... read more
FORREST GUMP QUOTE( culture / quotes )
Just because it made me laugh out loud .." Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?Jenny: Yeah. Forrest: Aren't I going to be me?... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (7/14/2012)( culture / quotes )
The War on Terror(TM) is a product. It doesn't exist 'to keep us safe'; on the contrary, it exists to keep us in a state of fear. - Liberty Underground News Service... read more
A FEW MORE GOOD QUOTES( culture / quotes )
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis Brandeis I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorr... read more
QUOTE OF THE DAY (4/6/2010)( culture / quotes )
For life to work well for most people today, the universe has chosen an unlucky few for whom nothing works at all. :) Try and keep that in mind as you go through your day. -- Bill Holmes... read more
MARK TWAIN QUOTES( culture / quotes )
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you're misinformed."
"A classic is a book that is praised by all and read by no one."
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!"
"Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an ... read more
