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- The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."
- Julian the Apostate
- When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
- Jack Nicholson's character in The Witches of Eastwick
- If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN?
- Fred Flintstone
- I've got one word for the eighties. One word. Handguns. Disposable Handguns.
- Bobbi Harlow's father to Steve Dallas in Bloom County
- For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
- Eric Ambler
- If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), while band is tuning instruments
- I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
- Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
- Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.
- Scott McNealy on IBM Corp's new chief executive officer Louis Gerstner
- Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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