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RE: It's A Quote
February 8, 2022 at 5:32 am
(February 7, 2022 at 11:41 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. —Lord Kelvin, 1895
'They'll never get that sucker off the ground.' - unnamed observer, Kitty Hawk (1903)
'They never get that big sucker off the ground.' - unnamed observer, Kennedy Space Center (1969)
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February 8, 2022 at 5:36 am
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February 8, 2022 at 8:54 am
"Strange, but true, that those who have loved God the most have loved men the least." (Robert G. Ingersoll)
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February 9, 2022 at 5:17 am
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February 9, 2022 at 12:12 pm
“Rationalism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a system of philosophy and ethics verifiable by experience and independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority.” (Memorandum of the Aims and Objects the Rationalist Press Association, London, c.1895)
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February 9, 2022 at 1:06 pm
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February 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm
I have never liked showoffs whom act like they are landing on the moon when all they are doing is jumping busses on a motor cycle. Not saying I could do either, but the moon landing is the beneficial risk for knowledge. The other is the narcissist.
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February 9, 2022 at 3:14 pm
(February 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I have never liked showoffs whom act like they are landing on the moon when all they are doing is jumping busses on a motor cycle. Not saying I could do either, but the moon landing is the beneficial risk for knowledge. The other is the narcissist.
‘Who’.
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