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...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy wrote:...On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series wrote:Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
May you live in interesting times.
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'.
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
What is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?
The freedom to succeed goes hand in hand with the freedom to fail.

Winston Churchill wrote: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke [Deceased] wrote:"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L.S. Churchill

"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A soldier's obedience finds its limits where his knowledge, his conscience and his responsibility forbid to obey orders." - Generaloberst Ludwig beck, leader of the 20th July plot

"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."

"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."

"I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people."

"Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. — This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe."

Vae, puto deus fio. - Alas, I think I am turning into a god.... (last words, attributed by Suetonius)

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - The greater the corruption/degeneration of the republic, the more its laws

ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις. - The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Vae Victis

Nihil nobis metuendum est, praeter metum ipsum. - We have nothing to fear but fear itself

"Greed is the root of all evil and the republican party"

Bright brains serve madness as well as they do sanity - namely, very well indeed.

A bad idea can spread like a mutated germ. If it is at all interesting, it can leap from one mind to another halfway across the universe before it has a stop put to it.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Darth Wong wrote:Perhaps I should have added that the Quote of the Week at the top of the forum should be reasonably compact, and not take up half the screen.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

The Grim Squeaker wrote:

Sir Arthur C. Clarke [Deceased] wrote:"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Robert J Hanlon