Great quotations

Quote: rxwine

Took that idea from an article on neuroscience. It's easy to paint a whole group with a stereotype, but individuals within that group are punished when they differ from the stereotype.

I think this was discovered by Gary Larson many years ago, It's the classic "Dammed if you do/Damned if you don't" paradox (and you'd better pick one or the other!)

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Occasionally, the hardest work and the most diligent efforts yield the most dreaded result: nothing. You have to work hard anyway, because no work ALWAYS yields nothing.

"There's no better sister than a friend." Anon.

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The thing about the unexpected is that no one expects it. --Nareed

Christianity's biggest crime was the enshrinement of Platonism and Abstract Rationalism over Western thought. That was the root cause of the Dark Ages.

The Theological Fallacy: ascribing everything to a deity with a plan, thereby making science, philosophy and policy (not politics) the downtrodden handmaidens of religion. The atheist version of this fallacy can best be summed up as "Everything happens for a reason."

It's only when we quit looking for a special meaning in existents (not in existence) that we began to find the real reasons for all manner of natural phenomena (ie for everything).

"Material objects are only the naked bones of history."
-- Dr. Barbara Mertz

"Whenever you feel like criticizing a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes first. Then you can criticize him all you want. Because you're a mile away, and you have his shoes."

Jack Nicholson as Edward Cole in "The Bucket List":

Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart.