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Baron Scarpia
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You know, I have to say that almost everyone refers to my username as "Hawkings". It's like they're blind to the second W!
Anyways, there was another quote by someone famous that suits this. Something about a puddle remarking that the hold in the ground that it's resting on is perfectly shaped so that it will fit perfectly. Can't remember who it was though...
Anyways, there was another quote by someone famous that suits this. Something about a puddle remarking that the hold in the ground that it's resting on is perfectly shaped so that it will fit perfectly. Can't remember who it was though...
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And that despite the sun coming up and it slowly evaporating...it remaind calm, safe in the knowledge that the world had clearly been created for it and that everything would be okay...Hawkwings wrote:You know, I have to say that almost everyone refers to my username as "Hawkings". It's like they're blind to the second W!
Anyways, there was another quote by someone famous that suits this. Something about a puddle remarking that the hold in the ground that it's resting on is perfectly shaped so that it will fit perfectly. Can't remember who it was though...
"Prodesse Non Nocere."
"It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president."
"I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..."
"All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism.
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"It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president."
"I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..."
"All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism.
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Darth Wong
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The oldest argument about "fine tuning" comes from the 19th century, when scientists battling the Catholic Church mocked it by asking if our noses were perfectly designed to hold up eyeglasses.
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
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TheBlackCat
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Are you referring to Voltaire?
"Note that noses were made to wear spectacles; we therefore have spectacles. Legs were clearly devised to wear breeches, and we have breeches. Stones were created to be hewn and made into castles; [the Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronkh] therefore has a very beautiful castle…"
I forget which of his books that is from.
"Note that noses were made to wear spectacles; we therefore have spectacles. Legs were clearly devised to wear breeches, and we have breeches. Stones were created to be hewn and made into castles; [the Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronkh] therefore has a very beautiful castle…"
I forget which of his books that is from.
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
-Richard Dawkins
-Richard Dawkins