Quotes to remember

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  1. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    “Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”

    ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
     
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    "If I was disappointed:
    It was because I expected too much."
     
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    "Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense."
    - Gene Spafford
     
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    "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie-- a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days-- but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."
    - Hannah Arendt, 1974
     
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    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    – Marie Curie
     
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    . “When kids look up to great scientists the way they do musicians, actors [and sports figures], civilization will jump to the next level.”
    – Brian Greene
     
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    "The business of the Universe is creating life."
    Cyril Ponnamperuma:
    director: Laboratory of Chemical Evolution: University of Maryland
     
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    And we can only see what it has on the Earth shelf

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    "The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad."
    - CIA officer testifying to US Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided Ba'th Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963
     
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    "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
    The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
    beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
    years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

    From bondage to spiritual faith;
    From spiritual faith to great courage;
    From courage to liberty;
    From liberty to abundance;
    From abundance to complacency;
    From complacency to apathy;
    From apathy to dependence;
    From dependence back into bondage."
    - Alexander Tyler
     
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