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RE: It's A Quote
June 27, 2025 at 7:23 am
"I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth."
This quote is attributed to Harry Truman by the UFO people and is usually followed with
– President Harry S. Truman. April 4, 1950. White House Press Conference.
But Truman didn't say it, nor did he have a press conference on that day, and yet that quote is showing up on some quote websites. It's just UFO believers lying for aliens again.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: It's A Quote
June 27, 2025 at 7:28 am
‘They say a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a whole lot of ignorance.’ - Sir Terry Pratchett
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RE: It's A Quote
June 27, 2025 at 8:02 am
“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.” (Ricky Gervais)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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RE: It's A Quote
June 28, 2025 at 11:47 am
Nobody's out to buy your story
Nobody wants to know your reason why
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RE: It's A Quote
July 8, 2025 at 11:11 pm
"Mr President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you."
Nellie Connally, the wife of the governor of Texas, to John F. Kennedy a few seconds before his death.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: It's A Quote
July 9, 2025 at 5:23 am
'I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.' - Alexander the Great (attributed)
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RE: It's A Quote
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 am
“I believe I have healthy common sense and therefore no need of religion.” (Heidi Klum)
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RE: It's A Quote
July 9, 2025 at 2:03 pm
‘There can be only one t’ousand!’
‘Gie ye sich a kickin’!’
‘They can tak oour lives, but they’ll niver tak oour troousers!’
‘Ach, stick it up yer trakkens!’
‘I could murder a kebab!’
-War cries of the Nac Mac Feegle
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RE: It's A Quote
July 10, 2025 at 5:21 pm
"Popular Mechanics set out to investigate conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks in late 2004, just as those claims were emerging from the swamps of extremist websites and radical Islamist organizations. We had no idea how much trouble we were about to stir up. Our investigation found no evidence in support of the conspiracy claims.
The article unleashed a flood of criticisms and accusations from those supporting such theories. These attacks ranged from the preposterous (it was said our magazine had published this investigation on orders from a cabal of Masons and Illuminati) to alarming (death threats were referred to our security department). Clearly, we had touched a nerve."
James B. Meigs,
Editor-in-Chief of Popular Mechanics
Really? Death threats? Why would people be angry if you showed them they were wrongly informed? Are they in love with 9/11 conspiracies?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"