Sagan, Carl.
Apocalyptic predictions require higher standards of evidence.
Saint Augustine
The good Christian should beware the mathematicians and all those who make empty prophesies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the binds of hell.
Saint Francis of Assisi
If you have men who will exclude any of God's Creatures from the Shelter of Compassion and Pity, then you have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Saletan, William. Jan. 9, 1996 WSJ.
One of conservatism's deepest and most enduing themes is a bitter respect for tragedy, for dilemmas in which no course is free of death or great suffering. …sometimes nature, limited resources, or human weakness or aggression compels us to choose between bad and worse.
Schwartzkopf, Norman
"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting."
You must come to knowledge; it cannot come to you.
Seattle, Chief
What happens to the animals, happens to Man. All things are connected.
Seinfield, Jerry
... I have never considered money. That's the most financially sound approach you can take in my business. When you don't consider money, then you make the right choice. And the right choice always leads to money.
Shakespeare, William S. "The Merchant Of Venice"
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted
Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
upon the fortune of the present year...
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. - Bassanio
... "Julius Caesar"
Caesar: Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
If, then, that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer, - Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves; than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shallit's Razor:
Never attribute to conspiracy what may be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.
Shaw, George Bernard
A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals.
Sopinka, John. Canadian Supreme Court Justice
Political correctness is a threat to free speech because special interest groups are not content just to put forth their views, but demand that the opposing view be silenced.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"And Commander, it is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." Captain Jean Luc Picard to Lcdr Data.
Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. -- Picard (The Inner Light)
Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns" -- Riker, quoting Data's definition of friendship (Time's Arrow, Part 1)
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. -- Captain Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie (The Drumhead)
Oh, yes. This is how it starts.... The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we may think. -- Captain Picard, to Adm. Satie (Ret.) (The Drumhead)
"Starwars"
"Try not. Do! Or do not. There is no try." The Jeddi Master, Yoda.
Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon
Like every other creature on the face of the Earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo - which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
_________Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: "What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young Marines on their way to Guadalcanal?"
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nightmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!
"Just kill the one with the sword first."
"Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt - you target them because they're the officers, right?"
No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?"
________________Pretenses are shabby things that, like papier-mache houses, must be energetically maintained or they will dissolve.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Swift, Jonathan.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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