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"Pretttyy Prettyy Preeettttyyy good." -Larry David

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

"Sometimes the most economical, effective, and efficient solution to a pernicious morale problem is to just get rid of all the unhappy people." -- Anonymous

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough” is a nice one i just encountered.

"You're a barrette face."
"You're a headcase."

"Belief is no substitute for arithmetic." -- Henry Spencer

"Science does not rest on belief, but rises on its own curiosity." -- Mark Barner

"Science is not belief, but the will to find out." -- Anonymous

"The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it." -- Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief - which is at the heart of all popular religion - that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." -- Walter Lippmann

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes; It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe; It is guilty, until found effective." -- Edward Teller

"A scientist believes in proof without certainty; A bigot believes in certainty without proof." -- 1984 book "Science and Creationism", edited by Ashley Montagu.

"Common Sense isn't nearly as common as common folks would like to believe." -- Mark Barner

"The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science." -- Claude Bernard

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification." -- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95) English biologist

"Faith is no substitute for evidence." -- Anonymous

"Faith Proves Nothing." -- Fnord, the Metasyntacic Variable

"It isn't faith that makes good science, Mr. Klaatu, it's curiosity." -- Prof. Barnhardt, in The Day The Earth Stood Still

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted time- John Lennon.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world

I got all things that are good.

"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves." -- Albert Camus (1913-1960), French author, journalist, and philosopher of the mid-20th century.

"You know, Nietzsche says, out of chaos comes order." - Howard Johnson

"Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard. - Olson Johnson

(Blazing Saddles)

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order." -- M. C. Escher (1898-1972), Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints; and for their impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

"The only purpose for chaos is to provide the raw materials for producing order." -- Fnord (1957-????), Metasyntactic Variable.