Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.
-Al Gore, May 2006
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
-Henry Kissinger
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
All utopias are fucked from the beginning. That doesn't mean we should give up trying though.
Please leave the Communist Party as clean on leaving as you would like to find it on entering.
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
-Harold R. McAlindon
i don't have expectations; i have hopes. i don't have plans; i have dreams. i don't have a future; i have a life. and that is infinitely better.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison
The measure of the greatness of a society lies in how it treats its weakest members. The measure of a person lies in how they react when presented with the truth.
[Discordians] need to be like a plague - not so virulent that we wipe out all potential carriers, but not so mild that we die out.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-George Orwell
looking for god? there is a rabbit in the moon, seriously turn your head to the right. now thats a good diety. the rabbit. hail eris and hump alot
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
-William Feather
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
-Ian Hacking
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