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Sat, 2007/03/10 - 4:02pm
Each day I select a quote which relates in some way to the topic of the main post.
Sometimes I agree with the quote, sometimes not.
The connection can be serious or humorous. I may intend it literally or ironically. But as often as possible I aim for a resonance that illuminates both the post and the quote, pushing both to a deeper level.
Looking for this connection, and the insight or laugh it provides, is a game I hope you will enjoy.
- Faith is...
- I know that there are people...
- Love and magic...
- My life has no purpose...
- "Dad," I said, "I want to go to the Moon...
- "I mean," continued Judiciary Pag...
- "Moral experts" would also constitute an elite group...
- "Nothing like it," Rez said...
- "Piecemeal" supernaturalism...
- "Supernatural" is...
- "You still don't understand" the Gray Voice...
- 11/04/2008 changed everything...
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize...
- A Law was made...
- A belief is not merely...
- A boy can learn a lot from a dog...
- A censor is a man...
- A great many people seem to think...
- A great number of people do not labour at all...
- A hundred objective measurements...
- A lifetime is more than sufficiently long...
- A marriage is always made up of...
- A mother understands...
- A person has three choices...
- A philosopher once said...
- A physicist is...
- A pickpocket is obviously a champion...
- A prose writer...
- A rank of party workers has been created...
- A simple request...
- A time when the gods were changing...
- A university is...
- A vacuum is...
- Abortion is an issue that serves as a stand-in for...
- After silence...
- Ah, those foolish days...
- All for one...
- All general statements...
- All great truths...
- All of us have in our veins...
- All over the place...
- All perception of truth...
- All perception of truth...
- All who would win joy, must share it...
- All you need is...
- Although a man must do right...
- America is always at its most powerful...
- America's rich did take a hit...
- Americans detest all lies except...
- Among the Hadza, males...
- An expert is a person...
- An important lesson of Enron is...
- An invasion of armies can be resisted...
- And James sat down on a brick...
- And at the end they traveled...
- And that's why I got polio?...
- And the old stories of the Hebrews...
- And they are waging a war...
- Anger is a signal...
- Another flaw in the human character...
- Any honest plan...
- Any one who has common sense...
- Anybody who could turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt...
- Anyone can do...
- Anyone who can handle a needle...
- Anything that has real and lasting value...
- Are these bogus moralizers trying to deceive...
- Aristotle maintained that women...
- As I discuss in my book...
- As Pollitt points out...
- As inequality has widened...
- As my old pappy used to say...
- As the authorities of Cambridge University had put it...
- As the law stands now...
- As to religion, I hold it to be...
- At Festivus, that time of year...
- At least half...
- At the resurrection...
- At the same time that Falwell...
- At what point, then, is the approach of danger...
- Barack Obama could be...
- Be humble for you are made...
- Be what you would seem to be...
- Beauty often seduces us...
- Because Americans generally failed to consider seriously why we had been attacked on 9/11...
- Beck's summer-long multimedia campaign centered on three lies...
- Before Allied took over...
- Beware lest you lose...
- Beware of the man...
- Both bands and tribes elicited...
- Bowing down in blind credulity...
- Brevity is the...
- But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of thine...
- But government in which the majority rule...
- But he told you that he loved you...
- But in the end one needs more courage...
- But mercy is...
- But she was finding it increasingly easy...
- But she was inside the wonderful garden...
- But these savage, wolfish parties alarm me...
- By consequence, when this year was instituted in Egypt...
- California...
- Can a mortal ask questions which God...
- Capital punishment is...
- Certainly the game is...
- Character - the willingness to accept...
- Character...
- Chess is as elaborate a...
- Civilization degrades...
- Come back in a hundred years...
- Conflation...
- Consider the lilies...
- Conversely the degradation of art...
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device...
- Cultivation is at least one of the greatest...
- DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to...
- Dawkins brings a flood of light...
- Death ends a life...
- Deep in the human unconscious...
- Democracy is a device...
- Democracy is being allowed...
- Desire makes everything blossom...
- Devise rules and policies to control your employees' unruly inclinations...
- Differences of habit and language...
- Digressions, objections, delight in mockery...
- Dirk Gently, hired by someone he never meets...
- Do not believe in anything simply because...
- Do not do unto others as...
- Do you think death could possibly be a boat?...
- Don't Tread on Me...
- Don't judge a book...
- Don't you see the irony...
- Drawing is not really difficult...
- Dream other dreams...
- Dreams are postcards from...
- During the Great Prosperity...
- EXULT, each patriot heart!...
- Each incoming president has the above seal branded...
- Earthly minds, like mud walls...
- Either this man is dead...
- Eternal nothingness...
- Eternity's a terrible thought...
- Even the phrase "war on terrorism" was a misnomer...
- Even with the best of maps...
- Eventually, it was decided...
- Every great advance in natural knowledge...
- Everything that is really great...
- Evil when we are in its power...
- FREEMASONS...
- Facts are meaningless...
- Facts are the enemy...
- Faith is...
- Faith, noun. Belief without...
- Fallacies do not cease...
- False words are not only evil...
- Family values is about...
- Far from scrabbling endlessly...
- Fear is the main source...
- Fear is the main source...
- Fear is the mind-killer...
- Few things are harder...
- Finally, inequality is not a natural feature of human...
- For John Caputo, hermeneutics means...
- For a successful technology...
- For example, social dominators freely admit...
- For five years before his election as president...
- For he is not besmirched...
- For the grossly impudent lie...
- For the two ways of contemplation...
- For to be free is...
- Force without wisdom...
- Forgive him, for he believes...
- Forsake not an old friend...
- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that...
- Gambling promises the poor...
- George said, "God is short and fat...
- Get up, stand up...
- Give neither...
- Given the success of Fox News...
- God does not play dice with the universe...
- God is the Self of the world...
- Good company and good discourse...
- Goodness is the only...
- Government is...
- Grabel's Law
- Gratitude is not only...
- Great wisdom is generous...
- Grover Norquist, the antitax advocate...
- Grown-ups never understand...
- Hail to you gods...
- Happiness is not achieved...
- He asked each of us one simple question...
- He felt that his whole life...
- He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels...
- He hoped and prayed...
- He knows nothing...
- He was as fresh as...
- He who fights with monsters might take care...
- Health is worth more...
- Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday...
- Hegel was right when he said...
- Hell, there are no rules here...
- Her own mother lived...
- Here is a lesson in creative writing...
- Here is an alarming example...
- Here's looking at...
- Heresy, the denial of accepted truth, is not...
- His honesty proceeds from the heart...
- Holding anger is a poison...
- Home. If cornbread...
- Homemade stilts were a common sight...
- Honesty is...
- Honesty may be the best policy...
- How can I believe in God...
- How good bad music and bad reasons sound...
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life...
- Human beings, who are almost unique in...
- Human nature is not...
- I always admired atheists...
- I am Determined...
- I am confident that...
- I am not in this world...
- I believe that banking institutions...
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend ...
- I care for riches...
- I could dance with you until the cows...
- I daresay you haven't had much practice...
- I didn't decide to run for president to...
- I do not fear Satan...
- I do not have a Pollyanna view of human nature...
- I don't know how to have casual conversation...
- I don't know that atheists...
- I don't like it...
- I dream...
- I had stumbled onto something big...
- I have been thinking that...
- I have come to know men most deeply...
- I have found you an argument...
- I have never let...
- I just looked 'round and he's gone...
- I learned about compassion...
- I meant what I said...
- I myself am made...
- I never said 'The superman exists and he's American...
- I never took hallucinogenic drugs...
- I only know...
- I recently counseled...
- I remember my grandfather handing me his dog-tags...
- I stopped believing in Santa...
- I think contraception is disgusting...
- I think of my canning...
- I think we've got to admit the possibility that we are not always right...
- I was born not knowing...
- I was suicidal as a matter of fact...
- I was thrown out of college for...
- I was...
- I won't say I'm no better...
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future...
- I write about political egalitarianism...
- I'm a godmother...
- I'm asking YOU who's on first...
- I'm handin' out wings...
- I'm leaving on a jet plane...
- I'm not a vegetarian...
- I've set in motion a geometric inevitability...
- I, for one, fear that if we don't subject religion...
- If America is the agent of God...
- If God did not exist...
- If I had only known...
- If Only God Would...
- If all the world hated you...
- If any one faculty of our nature...
- If it turns out that there is a God...
- If liberty and equality...
- If liberty and equality...
- If people are good only because...
- If the ground of democracy...
- If the people who make the decisions...
- If there are psychological laws that govern human well-being...
- If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell...
- If we knew what it was we were doing...
- If you are quite sure there is a difference between right and wrong...
- If you fail to admit you have a problem...
- If you want to be free...
- If you wish to know...
- If you're not scared or angry...
- Ignorance of the past...
- Imagination is the beginning...
- In 2009, more than 13,700 registered lobbyists...
- In Christianity neither morality...
- In a free government...
- In certain kinds of writing...
- In comparing modern thought with ancient records...
- In fact, during Ford's darkest days...
- In its purest form, [peer production] is...
- In obedience...
- In other words, that little Monopoly plutocrat in the top hat...
- In poverty, as in certain propositions in physics...
- In religion and politics people's beliefs...
- In science it often happens...
- In the beginning the Universe was created...
- In the beginning there was nothing...
- In the depth of winter...
- In the heady years before the passage of proposition 13...
- In the right light...
- In the transmission of human culture...
- In the unlikely story that is America...
- In the weeks afterward...
- In those days spirits were brave...
- Interpreter: One who...
- It changed everything...
- It has long been an axiom...
- It has yet to be proven...
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before...
- It is a denial of justice...
- It is a generation of towering achievement...
- It is a good morning exercise...
- It is a position not to be controverted...
- It is among the commonplaces of education...
- It is bad luck...
- It is better to ask some of the questions...
- It is difficult to get a man to understand...
- It is impossible to experience...
- It is impossible to go through life without...
- It is impossible to imagine...
- It is in fact nothing short of a miracle...
- It is never too late...
- It is never too late...
- It is not wealth...
- It is of interest to note...
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence...
- It is our choices...
- It is the cause of Republicanism...
- It is true that I was born in Iowa...
- It is uncertain at what point...
- It is well and good...
- It only takes 20 years...
- It profits a man nothing...
- It seems to give them a reason to be alive...
- It was enough to make a body...
- It was so much easier to blame it on Them...
- It's only...
- Judy, Judy, Judy...
- Kepler was convinced that ...
- Knowing what the Creator of the Universe believes...
- Labor is prior to and independent of capital...
- Lack of money...
- Lack of respect...
- Language is a process of free creation...
- Language is not...
- Language provides the foundation...
- Let me explain to you what’s really going on...
- Liberty Lobby is known to all...
- Liberty is the possibility of doubting...
- Liberty means responsibility...
- Lies are like children...
- Life is what happens...
- Like an unchecked cancer...
- Like so many Americans...
- Listen; there's a hell of a...
- Living is easy with eyes closed...
- Love is an attempt...
- Love of the republic in a democracy...
- Lowdly blows the north wind...
- Loyalty to petrified opinions...
- MAMMON, n. The god of...
- Major speakers at the 2004 Republican National Convention...
- Man is a credulous animal...
- Man is by nature...
- Marvin gathered his strength...
- Mathematics may be defined...
- May the Winter Solstice lights...
- Men cling passionately to old traditions...
- Moreover, it must not be forgotten...
- Most Christians have been told...
- Most of the change we think we see...
- Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists...
- My Brain...
- My education was...
- My grandfather once told me...
- My proposal is not a Robin Hood-like redistribution...
- My theory of evolution...
- My way of joking...
- Nature never deceives us...
- Nearly three decades after Mr. Reagan's revolution...
- Never let your sense of morals...
- No culture has yet solved the dilemma...
- No doubt Jack the Ripper...
- No one should be...
- Nobody knows the age of the human race...
- Nor do I fear skepticism...
- Nothing is as simple...
- Nothing shows a lack of conscience better...
- Of all the preposterous assumptions...
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song...
- Old Thrashbarg said that it was the ineffable will of Bob...
- On one wall are three rows of state-of-the-art flat-screen TVs...
- One is...
- One man's "magic"...
- One might equate growing up with...
- One night I came home unexpectedly...
- One of the reasons why most people respond to infants...
- One who meddles...
- Only very mature and well-balanced minds...
- Or just fall over the Bible...
- Other people ask us how we should deal with workmen...
- Our feelings are...
- Our house, is a very, very...
- Our pig is completely...
- Our system deliberately turns...
- Pantheism is sexed-up...
- Patriotism having become one of our topicks...
- Patriotism means...
- People are the common denominator of progress...
- People can have the Model T...
- Perhaps part of the reason why so many of our elites...
- Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind...
- Persuade your neighbors...
- Political language...
- Political language...
- Politics...
- Poverty, therefore, is a thing created...
- Power corrupts the few...
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is...
- Quis custodiet...
- Reality is that which...
- Reality is...
- Religion is about turning untested belief into...
- Religion is for those who...
- Religion is identity...
- Religion is the sigh...
- Remember the long-term effects of Watergate...
- Right, I'm a bigot...
- SELFISH, adj. Devoid of...
- Santa Claus had the right idea...
- Say what you will about...
- Saying goodbye...
- Science is built up with facts...
- Science is not only compatible...
- Science is nothing but...
- Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals...
- Seven years later, Rice-Hughes successfully pressed...
- Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices...
- Sharing is the central rule...
- Sickness and healing are in every heart...
- Since the early 1990's, Muslim organizations...
- Since the early 1990s, the fossil fuel lobby...
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means...
- So even for someone who considers a fetus...
- So many new ideas...
- So we and our elaborately evolving computers...
- So, you're an inventor...
- Some national parks have...
- Some questions were about Osama bin Laden...
- Sometime they'll give a war...
- Sometimes when you sacrifice...
- Soul as simultaneously one and many...
- Speech is of time...
- Stand Back
- Students achieving Oneness...
- TANSTAAFL...
- Take this remark from Richard...
- Ten percent of the U.S. population...
- That was absurd...
- That's a universal negative...
- That's part of American greatness...
- The American government's policies...
- The Bush team seized the moment...
- The Citizens of the United States of America...
- The End of the Human Race Will Be...
- The Joads rolled away...
- The Reagan era ideas have been abandoned...
- The attacks of 9/11 have been called...
- The attacks on the disadvantaged...
- The basis of a democratic state...
- The beginning of knowledge...
- The best government...
- The best way to succeed...
- The best way to try to motivate somebody...
- The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men...
- The brain is a wonderful organ...
- The clothes woven from this magic cloth...
- The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces...
- The conservatism that speaks to us through its actions in Washington...
- The costs that undergirded filibusters...
- The creative is the place...
- The creatures outside looked from pig to man...
- The experiences of millions...
- The explosive growth following the Clinton...
- The extreme socialists desire...
- The fact that a believer is happier...
- The fact that a great many people believe something...
- The fact that man knows...
- The fact that so many people love their religions...
- The facts of order...
- The facts on which the true believer bases...
- The first principle...
- The future, according to some scientists...
- The general populace must be excluded...
- The golden rule is...
- The good life...
- The good man is...
- The great gift of human beings...
- The greater the loyalty...
- The greatest mistake you can make...
- The handmade bread...
- The history of our race...
- The idea of an election...
- The illegal we do...
- The important thing...
- The internal evidence—the awful details of the abuse...
- The labyrinth has a single, winding path...
- The law, in its majestic equality...
- The love of liberty...
- The medium is...
- The mind of God...
- The moral ideas of the individual...
- The more people have studied...
- The most exciting phrase...
- The most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions...
- The mystai understood...
- The mystery of life...
- The nurturant parent model...
- The only freedom which deserves the name...
- The only good...
- The only thing worse...
- The opinions and teachings of Jesus...
- The optimist proclaims...
- The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute...
- The past and the future is a joke...
- The path to our destination...
- The people who cast the votes...
- The pervasive idea that religion...
- The primary purpose...
- The problem was, first, an enormous political discrepancy...
- The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement...
- The process of creating...
- The proper motto is not...
- The provision of the Constitution...
- The radical of one century...
- The radical of one century...
- The range of what we think and do...
- The raw material of news...
- The reports of my death...
- The rule is perfect...
- The same tax cuts have starved the public...
- The secret of a good life is...
- The secret of a good sermon...
- The service of the accepted image of economic life...
- The ships hung in the sky...
- The speed of him was like the ostrich...
- The spirit of resistance...
- The statistics on sanity...
- The story is frequently told...
- The strongest principle of growth...
- The success of lies that politicians tell...
- The teacher must derive not only the capacity...
- The teacher must...
- The test of a first-rate intelligence...
- The test of a vocation is...
- The thirst for a quest, a goal, a meaning, is unquenchable...
- The trickle-down economic theory says...
- The truth is rarely...
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to...
- The upper classes claimed privileged relations with the supernatural...
- The whole of science is nothing...
- Their arrival gave me an opportunity...
- Then Moses said to God...
- There are only 10 types...
- There can be no real healthcare reform...
- There can be no...
- There comes a point where...
- There is a live cat, and there is a dead cat...
- There is a natural hierarchy...
- There is a theory...
- There is an ecstasy...
- There is no harm in doubt...
- There is no salvation in...
- There is no salvation...
- There is no surer way to misread...
- There is no...
- There is nothing like dream to create...
- There is too much education...
- There will be little rubs and disappointments...
- There's not a day goes by...
- These are some of the clues...
- They always say time changes things...
- They conflated Iraq and 9/11...
- They flew out of the cloud...
- They forgot that taxes were much higher in the prosperous 1960s...
- They gazed at God's Final Message...
- They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased...
- They say that God...
- They want the federal government...
- They wonder much to hear that gold...
- They're just waiting for someone to step up...
- This country cannot afford...
- This is how I travel...
- This is the story of America...
- This town needs this measly one-horse institution...
- Those who seek to abrogate the First Amendment...
- Those who were cowards or led unrighteous lives...
- Those who would give up essential liberty...
- Thou art God...
- Though force can protect in emergency...
- Though it would be cynical and ahistorical to conclude...
- Thus, however, I advise you, my friends...
- Time as he grows old...
- Time flies like an arrow...
- Time is...
- Time present and time past...
- To be positive...
- To get back my youth I would...
- To know oneself is...
- To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint...
- Together, the growing concentration of executive power and the campaign for partisan predominance...
- Too great a gap between rich and poor...
- Tragedy is when I cut my finger...
- Trees like to have kids climb on them...
- Truth is treason...
- Turns out, it takes more than thirty minutes...
- Under capitalism, man exploits man...
- Unexpected discorporation was always rare on Mars...
- Unless you are very careful...
- Violence is...
- Virtually is...
- Vitter returned to the Senate...
- We all carry around so much pain...
- We are all atheists...
- We are an intrinsic part of the universe...
- We do on stage things that are supposed to...
- We don't receive wisdom...
- We have among us a class of mammon worshippers...
- We have been at this juncture before...
- We have met the enemy and...
- We have really everything in common...
- We have to believe in free will...
- We have, in fact, two kinds of morality...
- We hear endless talk in Washington...
- We hold in our hands...
- We know that polls are just...
- We must not allow...
- We pass the word around...
- We should pray to be "nothing."...
- We started off...
- We the People of the United States...
- We therefore consider whether...
- We want the facts to fit the preconceptions...
- We will lower the tax burden...
- We'll always have...
- We've given up far too many freedoms...
- Wealth is the parent...
- Well, if crime fighters...
- Well, that's essentially how I feel about life...
- What a tangled web...
- What about Santa's cookies...
- What binds us together across our differences...
- What comes must be sifted and tested...
- What constitutes a civil society...
- What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble...
- What greater thing...
- What if there's no God...
- What if this...
- What is most beautiful in virile men...
- What is repugnant to every human being...
- What is the matter with the poor...
- What to do in Switzerland...
- What transpired in the battlefields of Flanders...
- What we call the reality-based community...
- What would you do? Cut a great road...
- When I hear language like "You can't be saved unless...
- When I use a word...
- When I was in therapy...
- When You Have Eliminated...
- When a person cannot deceive himself...
- When a person cannot deceive himself...
- When a stupid man...
- When in doubt...
- When one admits that...
- When solving a "panic"...
- When the doors of perception...
- When the politicians complain...
- When the rich wage war...
- When the wealthy spend millions of dollars...
- When we take a hard look at...
- When we were children...
- Which interpretation of quantum mechanics...
- Which is the greater crime...
- While holding himself out as a post-partisan...
- While it might not seem like I'm changing the tone...
- While the right wing cleverly has achieved...
- Why can't you be a genius? ...
- Why you bone-headed, square-toed, tank-town boobs...
- Winter Solstice...
- Wisdom is not finally tested...
- Wisdom outweighs...
- With just enough of learning...
- With relief, with humiliation, with terror...
- With the bursting of the housing bubble...
- Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father...
- Ye can call it the Valley of the Shadow of Life...
- You are a child of the universe...
- You can fool...
- You can tell the ideals of a nation...
- You can't separate peace from freedom...
- You mean, you're dead and I'm alive...
- You need a mommy...
- You see what power is...
- You shall not muzzle an ox...
- You would think political leaders...
- You've got your phenomenon on one hand...
- Youth cannot know how age...
- [AT&T CEO Ed] Whitacre understood that...
- [T]he solution was liberalism...
- [T]here can be no doubt that [the perpetrators of 9/11] believed...
- [The president] could take the politics out of Iraq...
- crimes of cunning...
- football consists...
- gods like to see an atheist around...
- having a same-gender or an opposite-gender orientation is...
- i've seen your flag on the marble arch...
- someone asked for suggestions...
- the President of the United States...
- the lessons this life has planted...
- the people can always...
- we must repair the underlying Constitutional framework of our republic...
- we should have had Socialism already but for...
- what syndrome better describes...








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