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Miscellaneous Quotes

Here are some interesting quotes in no order whatsoever.  Search through and you may find a gem or three.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. - Benjamin Desraeli

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. -Will and Ariel Durant

If the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. - Stanley Garn

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. -Galileo Galilei

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. -Sir William Drummond

Men are better watching the seasons and putting good into the earth than running together in cities where they listen all day to each other's noises. . .--Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

The difference between common-sense and paranoia is that common-sense is thinking everyone is out to get you. That's normal - they are. Paranoia is thinking that they're conspiring.--J. Kegler