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- A human being can stand any amount of pain.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
- War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes to storage.
- Louis Rukeyser
- 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
- If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
- There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
- Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
- Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), The Revolution Betrayed p.41
- I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.'
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
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