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"John said you weren't fit to live with pigs. I stood up for you and said you were."
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"She was technically correct, but she convinced them she was guessing."
-Beauty and the Geek.

"God gave me legs so i can kick sinners."
-My Wife, pregnant with sarcasm.
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro

Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
-Albert Einstein
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Some of today's quotes 10-05-10:


"Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun."

FAISAL SHAHZAD,
speaking in a Manhattan courtroom after he was sentenced to life in prison for trying to blow up a sports utility vehicle in Times Square.



"I hope you all will donate a euro to Jérôme Kerviel."

OLIVIER METZNER,
lawyer for the former Société Générale trader who was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $6.7 billion (€4.9 billion) in damages for perpetrating one of the world's biggest trading frauds by covering up bets



"I'm not a witch."

CHRISTINE O'DONNELL,
Delaware's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, in her first general election campaign ad.



"I do not know what these people are hoping to achieve. They say they love their country, but they spend their time trying to destroy it."

COLM EASTWOOD,
mayor of Derry, in Northern Ireland, after a car bomb damaged a bank and several shops on Monday night; Irish dissidents are being blamed for the attack.


"These methods won't help stop or delay nuclear activities in our country."

RAMIN MEHMANPARAST,
spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, after the country claimed that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at its nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail its nuclear program.


Geo: I love your quote. {grin} Look at my signature and taglines.
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"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left."

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You never truely understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother. --Albert Einstein
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Never cancel because of a weather forecast--

me (not much but all I got! and I do live by it)
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"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
-Saul Bellow
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Wind blows over garbage can, trash everywhere.

"Did you see what god just did to me?"
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro

Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?

Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?

Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Be the change you want to see in the world.

By Gandhi
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"There are no 'absolutes' in the world. That is, principles that are held to be always true or valid. Of course, this sentence in itself is another 'absolute.' "
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