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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Hot on the heels of its magnanimous pardoning of Galileo, the Vatican has now moved with even more lightning speed to recognise the truth of Darwinism.
-- Richard Dawkins

Week in Review

-	Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-16
-	More like this
-	“Unread” Book Meme
-	A Peabody Award Winning Performance
-	Ken Miller weighs in on _Expelled_
-	Prom Night Dumpster Babies
-	Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-09
-	Great tits cope well with warming
-	Mrs. Stella R. Andaluss
-	Beneficial Nematodes

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Once I posed naked for a magazine. But it was very demeaning, and I've never been back to that newsstand.
-- Emo Philips

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
-- H.L. Mencken

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It's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
-- Derek Smalls

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I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil--you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.
-- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs

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Brought to you by the Booze Council - because Booze really satisfies.
-- Tom Servo

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Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan