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- We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
- Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale E. Turner
- Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays, 11-19-06
- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
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