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Dear Sir:
You ask me how I stand on abortion. Let
me answer forthrightly and without equivocation.
If by abortion you mean the murdering of
defenseless human beings; the denial of rights to the youngest of our citizens;
the promotion of promiscuity among our shiftless and valueless youth and the
rejection of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness-then, Sir, be assured
that I shall never waver in my opposition, so help me God.
But, Sir, if by abortion you mean the
granting of equal rights to all our citizens regardless of race, color, or sex;
the elimination of evil and vile institutions preying upon the desperate and
hopeless women; a chance to all our youth to be wanted and loved; and, above
all, that God-given right for all citizens to act in accordance with the
dictates of their own conscience-then, Sir, let me promise you as a patriot and
a humanist that I shall never be persuaded to forgo my pursuit of these most
basic human rights.
Thank you for asking my position on this
most crucial issue and let me again ssure you of the steadfastness of my stand.
Mahalo and Aloha Nui.
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-Unknown, a letter distributed by staff members
of the Hawaii State Legislature
"Defining Abortion a Tricky Business," Honolulu Advertiser, 14 February
1970
(cf. DRINK:Sweat)
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Any progress in knowledge, any worthwhile
achievement, depends on our attempts to transcend one particular viewpoint
and develop an expanded consciousness that takes in the world more fully.
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-Unknown
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To be or not to be: that is the question,
whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune.
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In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet,
queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.
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-Unknown
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President Clinton of the USA
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To copulate he finds interns.
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-Unknown
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Creationism
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I'm So Certain!
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-Unknown
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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-Unknown
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When you understand why you do not believe
in other gods, then you will understand why I don't believe in yours.
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-Unknown
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Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
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-Unknown
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Draft beer, not people!
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-Unknown
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Hangover: The wrath of grapes.
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-Unknown
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American beer is like sex in a canoe.
Fucking close to water.
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-Unknown
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Belief is a form of security, a bastion
against the discovery of truth.
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-Unknown
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Once you've tried to change the world you find it's
much easier to change your mind.
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-Unknown
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A man's real worth is determined by what he
does when he has nothing to do.
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-Unknown
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Whenever a Christian tells me he/she will
'pray for me,' I respond thusly: You pray for me, and I'll think for
you.
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-Unknown (Buddika, in alt.atheism.moderated)
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College is like a fountain of knowledge--and
the students are there to drink.
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-Unknown
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We have loved the stars too fondly to be
fearful of the night.
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-Tombstone epitaph of two unknown amateur
astronomers
Qtd. in Carl Sagan's
Cosmos, 1980
Chapter VIII, "Travels in Time and Space"
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing
would get done.
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-Unknown
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Bigamist: a guy who wants to keep two himself.
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-Unknown
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Hangover: The wrath of grapes.
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-Unknown
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Lawyer: Individual whose principal role is to
protect his clients from other members of his own profession.
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-Unknown
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MilliHelen: The amount of beauty needed to
launch one ship.
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-Unknown
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Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on
what's for dinner.
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-Unknown
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A drunk man's tongue is a sober man's mind.
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-Unknown
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Reality is the illusion that occurs due to the
lack of alcohol.
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-Unknown
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Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
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-Unknown
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Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom.
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-Unknown
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Here's to the happiest hours of my life-
Spent in the arms of another man's wife;
Here's to my Mother!
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-Unknown
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When you understand why you do not believe in
other gods, then you will understand why I don't believe in your's.
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-Unknown
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You'll go to Heck if you don't believe in
Gosh.
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-Unknown
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Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of
opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should
treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth
entertaining.
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-Unknown
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My ambition in life is to live forever--so
far, so good
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-Unknown
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You could throw her in the river and skim ugly
for two weeks.
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-Unknown
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The wheel's a-spinnin', but the hamster's dead.
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-Unknown
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I have a wonderful frame of mind. I just
don't have a picture.
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-Unknown
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I used to kiss her on the lips, but its all
over now.
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-Unknown
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Any progress in knowledge, any worthwhile
achievement, depends on our attempts to transcend one particular viewpoint
and develop an expanded consciousness that takes in the world more fully.
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-Unknown
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American is a very difficult language
mixed with English.
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-Unknown
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What's the difference between a lawyer and
a rooster? A rooster clucks defiance.
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-Unknown
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You cannot control the length of your life
but you can control is breadth, depth and height.
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-Unknown
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The cost of living hasn't affected its
popularity.
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-Unknown
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Because I love you truly,
Because you love me, too,
My very greatest happiness
Is sharing life with you.
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-Unknown
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There's so much to say but your eyes keep
interrupting me.
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-Unknown
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Within you, I lose myself.
Without you, I find myself.
Searching to be lost again.
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-Unknown
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Once in awhile, right in the middle of an
ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
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-Unknown
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A black hole is where God divides by zero.
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-Unknown
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All racists who are prepared to die for
their country, please do that now.
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-Unknown
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Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting
on what's for dinner.
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-Unknown
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In theory, it works in practice. In practice,
this is not true.
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-Unknown
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A lady's thimble will hold all the blood that
will be shed.
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-Unknown, a common saying before the
American Civil War
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Everything in therapy is really about sex,
except sex, which is really about aggression.
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-Unknown director of a psychiatric ward
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The head of state must be on the public
payroll; that way we keep control.
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-Newspaper article about the English Monarchy
in The Independent
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him
for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying
for a fish.
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-Unknown
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Copying off of one source is plagiarism.
Copying from a lot of sources is research.
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-Unknown
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One who presumes to know the truth stops
looking for it.
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-Unknown
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Sex after 80 is like shooting pool with a
rope.
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-Unknown
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Three Stages of Sex: Tri-Weekly, Try Weekly,
Try Weakly.
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-Unknown
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A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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-Unknown
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Once you've tried to change the world you
find it's much easier to change your mind.
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-Unknown
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If at first you don't succeed, don't go
skydiving.
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-Unknown
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If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
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-Unknown
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*Where is thought, if it
never leaves the thinker?
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-Television commercial for Canon Copiers
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything
from happening at once.
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-Unknown
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May your life be as beautiful as a summer
day with just enough clouds to make you appreciate the sunshine.
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-Unknown
Found inscribed in a book and dated 1882
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Alone upon the battle ground, beneath a
dying star,
Rodrigo stood in bleak despair, his hosts were scattered far;
Eight battle had they bravely fought against the Moorish band,
No hope remained within their hearts to save their native land.
Rodrigo sadly turned away, forspent with grief and pain,
And journeyed in the trackless night across the barren plain.
The king descended from his steed, for now 'twas lame and blind,
Alone he staggered faint and sick, no shelter could he find.
His sword was stained with blood and dust, as though from darkest hell
It had been plucked, its scarlet hue a tale of gore did tell.
His coat of mail, that set with jewels, had glistened in the sun,
Now seemed to him a mourning cloth that some dark fate had spun.
At dawn he climbed a hill that towered above that dark terrain,
Beneath him lay his banners torn, his noble soldiers slain,
And as the king in sorrow gazed upon that cheerless morn,
He heard a cry of victory: the Arab shout of scorn!
He searched for the brave captains that led the hosts of Spain,
But he beheld their lifeless forms upon that gory plain.
Rodrigo could no longer bear the burden of his woe,
These words he spoke as from his eyes the bitter tears did flow:
"Last night I was the king of Spain, today no fief command,
Last night fair castles held my train, today bereft I stand,
The sun shall set forever on my kingdom and my reign,
The dawn will find no trace of me throughout this vast domain.
Oh hapless day when first I bore my scepter and my sword!
Accursed hour that I was named Hispania's ruling lord
Oh fate most cruel that I should see the sun go down this night!
Oh, death, thou art victorious! Why fearest thou to smite?"
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-(Unknown) Traditional Spanish ballad,
as translated by Katharine E. Strathdee
Qtd. in Horace Sutton, "Democracy in Spain"
Saturday Review, October 29, 1997
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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are
doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
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-Unknown
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
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-Unknown
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