Quotes: Misc. Part 3
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I frankly think the soul or personage comes in when the fetus is accepted by the mother.

- James McMahon, abortionist
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'Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism... What can the theistic 
Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a 
fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of 
humanistic teaching?' - Charles Francis Potter, a signer of the Humanist 
Manifesto, author of 'Humanism: A New Religion'
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Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
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Remember the Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.
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When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't believe in nothing. Rather, he'll believe in anything. The opposite of Christianity isn't atheism; it's superstition. 

- G. K. Chesterton (paraphrase)
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.

- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899.
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The best-selling American-produced car in Japan in 1992 was...The Honda Accord,
manufactured in Ohio and exported to Japan.
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He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
- from Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part VII

He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
- the last line from Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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One doctor said to another, "I want your opinions about the terminating of a pregnancy. The father was syphilitic. The mother had tuberculosis. Of the four children born, the first was blind, the second died, the third was deaf and dumb, the fourth also had tuberculosis. What would you have done about the fifth pregnancy?"
"I would have aborted it."
"Then you would have murdered Beethoven."
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Don't Look - you might see.
Don't listen - you might hear.
Don't think - you might learn.
Don't make a decision - you might be wrong.
Don't walk - you might stumble.
Don't run - you might fall.
Don't change - you might grow.
Don't live - you might die.
     - John Maxwell
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"Instead of coming to give God what He demands, and deserves, the average evangelical 
comes to have his emotions pandered to. What he wants of 'worship' is a renewal of his 
ego. He demands that the service make him feel better about himself. The blatant 
narcissism of it all is simply astounding" (Monte E. Wilson, Chalcedon Report, 
May 1996, p.17).
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May those who love us love us, 
And may God turn the hearts of those who don't. 
And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, 
So we may recognize them by their limping.
- A paraphrased Gaelic prayer
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. 

- Camus 
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-Eden Phillpotts 
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All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. 

- Arthur Schopenhauer 
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"Outside of the killings, Washington (DC) has one of the lowest crime rates in 
the country."--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC 
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Viruscan Report: Windows 95 found - remove it? [Y/Y] 
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If you can read this you weren't aborted. Call your mom and thank her. 
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Isn't it something that the gold men will steal and die for here is just the asphalt we will walk on in heaven? 
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This is the worst disaster in California since I was elected.
- California Governor Pat Brown on a local flood 
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"Faithfulness, not Success." - Mother Teresa 
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Consider Jesus. When talking about his future return to earth, his concern was whether he would find faith among people, not whether his followers would be able to predict which convergence of enemy forces had brought about a one-world government. 
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The means of communication is part of what we communicate.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw
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Open your home for community. Don't start a program. Don't suddenly think you can add to your church budget and begin. Start personally and start in your homes. I dare you. I dare you in the name of Jesus Christ. Do what I am going to suggest. Begin by opening your home for community. I have seen white evangelicals sit up and clap their heads off when black evangelicals get up to talk at conference times. How that clap! That's nice because six years ago the evangelicals would not have been clapping. But I what to ask you something if you are white. In the past year, how many blacks have you had at your dinner table? How many blacks have felt at home in your home? And if you haven't had any blacks in your home, shut up about the blacks!
- Francis Schaeffer, Church at the End of the 20th Century, p. 107
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Liberals judge their morality, and the morality of others, not on the basis of how they live their lives but on their public policy positions. If you have the right position on abortion, you could be an axe murderer and still be a moral guy, as far as liberals are concerned. 

- Rush
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To suggest that science is somehow outside the scope of Christianity is to suggest that Christianity is not a total worldview. 

- Chuck Colson
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Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview. 

- Chuck Colson
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57% of Americans fear the IRS more than God 

- Discovery Health Channel poll taken in August, 2000
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Would you like me to show you the door?
That's very kind of you, but I saw it on the way in. - Monty Python
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They said it couldn't be done and you almost proved them right.
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Tyranny never comes to your door unless it is wearing a badge.
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You cannot put perfume on someone without getting some on yourself.
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Did you know that babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

- Jeff Foxworthy
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The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself.

- As Good as it Gets
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Just because you're lost doesn't mean you say your compass is broken.

- Anthony Hopkins, "The Edge"
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There must be heat in the heart and light in the mind -- and no more heat than justified by the light!

- John Piper
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If you are concerned about making enemies, you will never have good friends.
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People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

- Jill Briscoe
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Street magic is more than magic. Magic is making a quarter appear behind the ear of a bewildered boy. Street magic is taking a quarter from a beggar’s cup and making it appear behind the beggar’s ear, only to drop it in his cup again, as though you’re being generous.

- David Blaine satire from Modern Humorist
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He who is unaware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
- Richard Whately
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Discrimination to fight discrimination remains discrimination.

- Larry Elder
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It takes two to speak the truth. One to speak and another to listen.

- Henry Thoreau
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Many things are opened by mistake but none so frequently as the mouth.
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"For the Lord is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king."  [Is 33:22a]
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Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...
   Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and
moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

- Albert Einstein
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Make like a bakery truck and haul buns.
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Who were those gentlemen, and why were they merry and in need of rest?
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"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong.  And the only rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on.From now on, I am your teacher."

- Mazer Rackham to Ender Wiggin in "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card
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in the absence of an appeal to the imagination, minds are rarely changed on public policy matters -- no matter how persuasive our arguments may be.

- Chuck Colson
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There are three types of people: those who watch things happen, those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. - Ben Franklin
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"The most important thing is how much you learn after you already know it all."
- Earl Weaver, Baseball Manager.
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It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression … that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the Constitution of our Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. To this I am opposed; because, when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of power, it will render powerless the checks of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. It will be as in Europe, where every man must be either pike or gudgeon.

- Thomas Jefferson
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Creativity ... means thinking up or discovering new ideas for making or saving money. Innovation is the process of turning those ideas into profitable realities. ...creativity without innovation is a waste of time. But you can't have innovation without creativity.

- Michael LeBoeuf, "The Perfect Business"
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If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus on day, so I never have to live a day without you.

- Pooh
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It's time that we all lighten up about sex and keep our sexual activities where they belong: in the privacy of the bedroom or the hot tub, or in the case of Pamela Anderson, on the Internet.

- Bill O'Reilly
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Carrying a resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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During World War II, George Orwell said of England's pacifists: "
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where 
traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively 
against democracy than for it. Objectively, the pacifist is pro-Nazi. 
- George Orwell, of England's pacifists during World War II
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"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so thou shalt live jollily, for a good conscience is a continual Christmas." --Benjamin Franklin
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He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean." --Joseph Sobran 
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Now there's a man with an open mind ... you can feel the breeze from here!
- Groucho Marx
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I believe in God like I believe in the sun; Not because I see it, but because of it, I see everything!
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If you think talk is cheap, hire a lawyer.
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Without law and order our nation cannot survive. - Adolf Hitler
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Lawyers - The larval form of politicians.
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Diplomacy - The art of saying "nice doggie" while you find a rock.
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Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. 

- G.K.Chesterton
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