"Arrogance must be earned."
"Absence of evidence, while not evidence of absence, is sufficient cause for reasonable doubt."
"Everybody lies. I don't ask why people lie, I just know they all do. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. Even the most successful relationships are based on lies. The only variable is about what. Dying people lie too. Wish they'd worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite."
"It would seem that the H1N1 virus was far less contagious than the panic that it inspired."
"You do remember logic, don't you? It's the part of your brain that weeps every time you kneel down and pray to a glorified petting zoo." -- Rich Burlew, as Girard Draketooth in "Giants In The Playground," Dec 14, 2009.
"The manufacturer assumes no liability for the lack of deterrence from using this weapon."
"(a) Faith Proves Nothing. (b) Prayer does nothing. (::) Religion is nothing."
"That you would call this 'stereotyping' means to me only that you can not refute the evidence or the conclusion, so you resort to Ad Hominem attacks as if by your say-so you can banish the truth."
"'Political Correctness' - which is no different form George Orwell's 'Newspeak' - is an attempt to change the way people think by forcibly changing the way they speak, as if doing so would banish the truth."
"I must not be exasperated by ignorance. Exasperation is the mind-killer. Exasperation is the little-death that brings total brain-death. I will face my exasperation. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the exasperation has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"The apparent lack of any rational explanation is not evidence of any irrational explanation being right."
"Those who believe in the supernatural often consider science as a meta-physical party pooper, when it reality Science is there to be the Designated Driver."
"NEURONAZI (n): 1. A person that believes everyone's behavioral, intellectual, and/or mental abilities should fall within a narrow set of parameters; 2. A neuro-typical person that strives to make everyone else as normal as he or she is; 3. A person that considers certain opinions, thoughts, and beliefs to be the only correct ones; 4. A person that believes that anyone who differs from a narrowly-defined set of behavioral characteristics is somehow defective and should be cured (if possible) or institutionalised (if necessary). See: 'Curebie'"
"If religionists could reason there would be no more religionists."
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people."
"Just because science can not explain an alleged event or experience, the explaination does not automatically default to a supernatural cause."
"Occam's Razor states that the simplest explanation is usually the most valid; and the simplest explanation in this case is that somebody screwed it up, walked away from it, and is now lying about ever being involved with it in the first place."
"Believing in the essential goodness in people does not make those people good."
"There are at least three levels of meaning to every conversation: the literal words being exchanged, the obvious meanings of those words in the immediate context, and the real meaning that wakes you up at three-thirty in the morning so that ypu can slap your forehead and say, 'So that's what we were talking about!'"
"Anomalies are wonderful things. While common, average and adequate have a multitude of equally valid explanations, anomalies rarely have more than one valid explanation, and it's usually that someone screwed up."
"You have every right to believe that I am wrong, but that's no excuse for you to stop thinking."
"Anyone who won't give up after having lost the argument is marching to the beat of a dead horse."
"Fnord: Explaining the Obvious to the Oblivious Since 1957."
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02 Jan 2012, 12:13 pm
