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Just a Friendly Reminder…Posted on Sep 7, 2006Forty-six percent of Americans still believe there was a connection between Saddam and 9/11. The good news? That number is down from 69% since September 2003. (via Salon) At this rate, the truth will become common knowledge around the same time Suri Cruise, above, graduates from college.
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By GW=MCHammered, September 8, 2006 at 2:06 pm #
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ON THE CONNECTION
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
~David Hume
As a culture we seem to have trouble distinguishing science from pseudoscience, history from pseudohistory, and sense from nonsense.
~Michael Shermer
Credo Consolans. More than any other, the reason people believe weird things is because they want to. It feels good. It is comforting. It is consoling.
~Michael Shermer
ON THE CONDITION
The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
~Yeats
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Voltaire
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~Bertrand Russell
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
~Eric Hoffer
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
~Gore Vidal
ON THE FUTURE
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
~Thomas Paine
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~Harriet Woods
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~Henry David Thoreau
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Report this~Benjamin Franklin