One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers.
-- C. W. Dalton (The Right Brain and Religion)
Monday, April 30, 2012
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
-- Lenny Bruce
Friday, April 27, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Church, cult. Cult, church. Big deal! So we get bored somewhere else every Sunday!
-- Bartholomew J. Simpson
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Sen. Danforth: There is nothing on the face of the album which would notify you if the record has pornographics material or material glorifying violence?
Tipper Gore: No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me.
Frank Zappa: I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's legs on the album cover is good indication that it's not for little Johnny.
-- The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on rock lyrics, from The Village Voice, 6 Oct 1985
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Dammit, I'm no supervising technician. I'm a technical supervisor. It's too late to teach this old dog new tricks.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Monday, April 23, 2012
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Like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with bending.
-- Bender Unit 22
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin (interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal)
Saturday, April 21, 2012
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This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Friday, April 20, 2012
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I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
-- Penn Jillette
Monday, April 16, 2012
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This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke: It just keeps going faster and faster. Lisa, get in here! In this house, we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Saturday, April 14, 2012
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Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she lived with was made up of idiots. Remember? One of them was always getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to the farmhouse to alert the other ones. She'd whimper and tug at their sleeves, and they'd always waste precious minutes saying things: "Do you think something's wrong? Do you think she wants us to follow her? What is it, girl?", etc., as if this had never happened before, instead of every week. What with all the time these people spent pinned under the tractor, I don't see how they managed to grow any crops whatsoever. They probably got by on federal crop supports, which Lassie filed the applications for.
-- Dave Barry
Friday, April 13, 2012
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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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The level of awe that you get by contemplating the modern scientific view of the universe: deep time (by which I mean geological time), deep space, and what you could call deep complexity, living things..... that level of awe is just orders of magnitude greater and more awe-inspiring than the sort of pokey medieval world-view which the church still actually has. I mean, they sort of pay lip-service to the scientific world-view, but if you listen to what they say on Thought For The Day [a religious program on BBC Radio] and things like that, it is medieval. It's a small world, a small universe, with the sky up there, very little advance since that time. So I yield to nobody in my awe for the universe and for life, but I also have a deep desire to understand it, in terms of what makes it work, what makes it tick, and not to take refuge in spurious non-explanations like "I just believe it because I believe it," that sort of thing.
-- Richard Dawkins, intervi ew with Douglas Adams
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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"Whoopee" was such a beautiful word and then Bob Eubanks had to go and cheapen it.
-- James Urbaniak (via Twitter)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, April 09, 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
-- Albert Einstein
Saturday, April 07, 2012
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
-- Doug Larson
Friday, April 06, 2012
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The man who worships a tyrant in heaven naturally submits his neck to the yoke of tyrants on earth.
-- George W. Foote (Flowers of Freethought)
Thursday, April 05, 2012
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The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
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I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign.
-- Number 6
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
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It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
-- Richard Dawkins
Monday, April 02, 2012
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
-- Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, April 01, 2012
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese
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