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A-1: The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and confine man to the bounds of Hell.
      -- Saint Augustine, Numidian Bishop of Hippo (354 - 430)

A-2: Scientific progress has resulted in advances that are unsettling for the conciences of men and women . . . 
      -- from Guidlines for Catholic Politicians, Jan 16, 2003

A-3: Science does not reject god, nor does it accept god; it merely ignores god.
      -- Dr. Eric Kardoffski





  

   
  

B-1: When practical people find themselves in a hole they stop digging. When ideological people find themselves in a hole they ask for a bigger shovel.
       -- Bill Clinton

B-2: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
       -- Winston Churchill

B-3: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
       -- Albert Einstein

B-4: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, but remember, you are the easiest person to fool.
       -- Richard P. Feynman

B-5: Reality is that which, when you don't believe it, doesn't go away.
       -- Peter Viereck

B-6: What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
       —Mark Twain

B-7: Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority it is time to change.
         -- Mark Twain

   



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C-1: There is nothing more difficult than for those who don't get it to understand how those who get it get it, or for those who get it to understand why those who don't get it don't get it.
        -- unknown

C-2: By the time you swear you're his,
       Shivering and sighing,
       And he vows his passion is
       Infinite, undying -
       Lady, make a note of this:
       One of you is lying.
          -- Dorothy Parker

C-3: Why be happy when you could be normal?
          -- Jeanette Winterson's mom

  

  


D-1:  It’s absolute virtue that you call forth to kill large numbers of people.
         -- Robert J. Lifton

D-2:  We use our Bibles to justify our bigotry . . .
         -- Leonard Pitts Jr.

D-3: War is  the logical outcome of moral certainty.
        -- Charles Bernstein

D-4: . . . war is a drug. [the rush of battle] dominates culture, distorts memory, corrupts language and infects everything around it . . . [it] exposes the capacity for evil that lurks just below the surface within all of us.
        -- from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
                       by Chris Hedges
D-5: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
D-6: With or without religion,  you  would  have good  people  doing good  things and  evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes  religion.
       -- Steven Weinberg. Nobel Laureate, Physics 1979

D-7: Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
       -- Will Durant
D-8: ". . . the lesson of today's terrorism is that if God exists, then everything, including blowing up thousands of innocent bystanders, is permitted — at least to those who claim to act directly on behalf of God, since, clearly, a direct link to God justifies the violation of any merely human constraints . . ."
-- Slavoj Zizek
D-9:  Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
          -- Blaise Pascal

D-10:  The most horrible weapon in any arsenal is the madness of men.
          -- Richard Cohen

 
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E-1: IMAGINARY CONSTIPATION 177:  Some people are deeply disappointed with their entire alimentary canal, most notably the colon and the rectum. They are nettled by a lack of proper frequency of their bowel movements and vexed at the color and consistency. To improve their status in the world of healthy intestinal people, they bombard their  digestive system with all sorts of laxatives, cathartics, purgatives, enemas, and suppositories,  . . .   For them, Happy Valley means a bowel movement every day of the right color and right consistency.  . . .  Daily bowel movements are not essential for good health; the use of laxatives and enemas by persons who are capable of physical activity, who are not invalided or bed ridden, is distinctly a wicked act against the body.  People who are rectally and anally preoccupied can better serve their needs by transmuting this scatological concern to a concern of greater importance, such as money, sex, love, life.
     --from SYMPTOMS The Complete Medical Home Encyclopedia, ed Sigmund S. Miller, Avon Books



F-1: One must not always think that feeling is everything.  Art is nothing without form.   
          -- Flaubert
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G-1: If we wish our civilization to survive we must break the habit of deference to great men.
         -- Karl Popper

G-2: To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
         -- Theodore Roosevelt 1918

G-3: ". . . democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." 
          -- FDR

G-4:  Beware of strong leaders. They often lead to disaster.
         -- Cheng Fuei

G-5: [George] W. [Bush]'s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith.
      -- Maureen Dowd, NY Times Nov. 7, 2004

 		   



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H-1: Conspiracy theories tend to be neatly constructed so that every decision, or failure to decide, seems  to stem from ulterior motives. They leave no room for the dilemmas of real life, nor for miscommunication or outright failure. As such they rarely bring us closer to the truth, and more often create a fertile breeding ground for dangerous stab-in-the-back myths.
       -- from Srebrenica Record of a War Crime 
           by Jan Willem Honig & Norbert Both

H-2: Truth does not become more true if entire world agrees with it, or less true even if the whole world disagrees with it.
       --Maimonides

 		   




        Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~
"Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." 
-- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
  
 I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog:
"No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 

I do not fear death. I'd been dead for billions of years before I was born.
-- Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending;
and to have the two as close together as possible. 
-- George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. 
 -- Victor Borge

By all means, marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher..
-- Socrates

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
-- Jimmy Durante

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. 
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 


Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. 
-- Alex Levine


My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Money can't buy you happiness . but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
-- Spike Milligan

I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. 
-- Mark Twain

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.
-- Joe Namath

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. 
Then it's time for my nap.
 -- Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
-- W.C.. Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress..
-- Will Rogers

Don't worry about avoiding temptation; as you grow older, it will avoid you.
-- Winston Churchill

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ..
but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
-- Phyllis Diller

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
-- Billy Crystal

The cardiologist's diet:    
If it tastes good, spit it out.