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- The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
- Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)
- Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
- Lester Brown, Fortune Brainstorm Conference, 2006
- Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic.
- Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic
- Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- ...the goodness of the will depends on the intention of the end.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Summa Theologica
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
- Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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