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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 11/03/2007 : 14:13:10
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YO: I can't remember if this has been posted here before. If it has, it certainly bears repeating, especially after the last couple of weeks here in BushWorld.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Muckraker Mencken had his shit oh so totally together. Would that there were now such journalists!
OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 21:46:53 [Permalink]
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| Now that is just classic! |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/03/2007 : 22:13:05 [Permalink]
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Too bad Mencken wasn't around for Randi's Million Dollar Challenge. He might have won as a psychic. Great quote.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/03/2007 22:13:23 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/04/2007 : 04:04:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Orwellingly Yurz
YO: I can't remember if this has been posted here before. If it has, it certainly bears repeating, especially after the last couple of weeks here in BushWorld.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Muckraker Mencken had his shit oh so totally together. Would that there were now such journalists!
OY!
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A Golden Oldie that I'd forgotten. Thanks OY!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2007 : 10:17:58 [Permalink]
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A wonderful quote.
I happen to have in my profile a quote by Mencken that has always pleased me too:
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is
simple, neat, and wrong." |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Aphoristic Wisdom
