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We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world.

Ted Nugent is an asshole. He always was.

I say, thou mad March hare.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Zero tolerance leads to zero common sense.

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?

Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and non-relative; for the word absolute is put upon much too hard duty in metaphysics, not to be willingly spared when its services can be dispensed with.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest. It

To the editor, the author, and the public speaker, it is believed that a great convenience will hereby be afforded; for nothing adorns a composition or a speech more than appropriate quotations—endorsing, as it were, our own sentiments with the sanction of other minds—unless the habit of quoting is too often indulged, when it degenerates into pedantry, and becomes unpleasing.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

the lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything?

We live together, you and I, in a dark time when all official history is propaganda.

problem-solution marketing. They would market and publicize the problem of untreated pain. Then they'd promote the solution: OxyContin.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair. [ Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial .]

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.