It's A Quote

[Ivan Denisovich]

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Malcolm X.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘A nod’s as good as a poke with a sharp stick to a deaf camel.’ - Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

If I told you that I've never seen evolution in action, but I still believe in it because my belief, the belief itself is the evidence and the material proof that evolution was real, I don't think there's a creationist alive that would take me seriously. But if I were to say that I believe in something supernatural because my faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen, then I'm just quoting the Bible and these people would praise it just as long as my faith aligned with theirs. It's always 'faith is bad' unless it's faith in their religion, 'evidence is useless' unless it's evidence that they approve of, and 'lying is wrong' unless you're lying for Jesus.

- Forrest Valkai

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'With all the ruin emanating from the Oval Office on a daily basis, it's easy to fall into quiet despair. Following the news feels like a malignant tumor as it spreads outward from the epicenter of the free world, jumping oceans, URLs, and psyches, threatening the globe on both macro and micro levels simultaneously.' - Sabrina Haake

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Donald Trump owning all these beauty pageants is like Michael Vick owning a chain of pet stores.' - Robin Williams, 2012

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

"I remember my days in the Army when it was impossible to hear a single sentence in which the common word for sexual intercourse was not used as an all-purpose adjective." - Isaac Asimov

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

"I remember my days in the Army when it was impossible to hear a single sentence in which the common word for sexual intercourse was not used as an all-purpose adjective." - Isaac Asimov

Interesting factlet: during WWII, Asimov worked alongside Robert Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia, doing science-y stuff for the war effort.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Yeah, but he was then drafted to the army after the war. Similarly to Richard Feynman, who worked for the army but was then drafted anyway, although he famously failed the psychological test and never went to the army.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Yeah, but he was then drafted to the army after the war. Similarly to Richard Feynman, who worked for the army but was then drafted anyway, although he famously failed the psychological test and never went to the army.

Yup. Of the three of them, de Camp was the only military officer. Heinlein, a Naval Academy grad, was medically retired in 1934 (tuberculosis).

Boru

[Ivan Denisovich]

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Varlam Shalamov.