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Immanuel Kant:

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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October 29, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ambrose Bierce, from The Devil’s Dictionary:

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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October 28, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Alexandre Dumas, in the voice of Athos the Musketeer:

People in general only ask advice not to follow it. If they do follow it, it is only for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

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October 27, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Barry Sanders:

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.

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October 26, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pythagoras:

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

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October 25, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Desmond Ford:

A wise man changes his mind sometimes, but a fool never.

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October 24, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Demosthenes:

The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.

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October 23, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jerry Coyne:

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding “truth”: dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.

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October 22, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Dean Acheson:

President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

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October 21, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Thales of Miletus:

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Afterthought:

I was led to seek out a quote form Thales of Miletus by Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mystery, Death of a Doxy.

I have been a Nero Wolfe fan since I read Some Buried Caesar in the back of the family car as my parents drove us to visit my grandmother [mumble] years ago. I am currently escaping reality by rereading the Nero Wolfe canon.

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October 20, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Gustave Flaubert:

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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October 19, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kevn Whately, in the voice of Detective Inspector Lewis:

Life’s just a series of moments. That’s all there is.

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October 18, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker, and Terry Farrell, in the voice Reggie Kostas:

Becker: I wanted learn more about psychos, so I went on the internet.

Kostas: Where better?

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October 17, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Danforth:

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

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October 16, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Hunter S. Thompson:

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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October 14, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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H. L. Mencken:

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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October 13, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

Religion is supposed to be about people being nice to each other, but, frankly, I don’t see a lot of that. You know what I do see? I see a lot of people using the good book to say that they are morally superior. I see people building TV stations to bilk grandma out of her pension check, all in the name of God. How about all those god-fearing people killing other god-fearing people because they don’t fear God the same way.

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October 12, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jack Horner:

Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

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October 11, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Paul Eldridge:

Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

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October 10, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

Frankly, I’d pay extra for a device that would make it harder for the world to find me.

Little did he know how prescient he was.

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October 9, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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