Quotes By The Day

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Jerry Falwell
(8/11/1933-5/15/2007)
American Clergyman

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
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And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
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Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
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But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.
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Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
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God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
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God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
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God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
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I am a Christian.
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I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out.
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I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
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I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
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I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
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I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
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I think pornography is a scourge on society.
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I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
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I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
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I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
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I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
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If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
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It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
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My father was an agnostic.
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Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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The First Amendment is not without limits.
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The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
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The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
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There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.

[Snowden]

He was a tricky combination of truth, prejudice and outright stupidity, judging from this list of quotes, wasn't he!

[conlor]

He said whatever he thought sounded righteous.

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Erwin Schrodinger
(7/12/1887-1/4/1961)
Austrian Physicist

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
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Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

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Fidel Castro
(8/13/1926 - Age 82)
Born in Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, Dictator

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I find capitalism *****nant. (I don't know why it **'d re pug-nant.) It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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John Galsworthy
(8/14/1867-1/31/1933)
English Author

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.