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Meaningful ideas and quotes
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'War concentrates power in the hands of those most likely to misuse it.' - Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realise what cruel, sadistic little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
- Terry Pratchett (paraphrased).
Dying to live, living to die.
'Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. It IS democracy.' - Walter Cronkite
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
'Whatever you're doing today, do it with all the confidence of a four year old in a Batman t-shirt.' - Variously ascribed
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
"The way most people deceive themselves, most particularly, is they leave what they know they're ignorant about un-examined." - Dr. Jordan Peterson
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
'People who talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch.' - Melvin Udall
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
"The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered."
Lemmy 
“Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the true religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.” (Mark Twain)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
"A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/t...story.html
'Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside the cradle of Hercules.' - T.H. Huxley
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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