The Quote Thread

**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2158 Location: Indiana

A place to post your favorite quotes...from politics to religion to whatever.
Cool

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"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Ben Franklin

Skeptical, Should we make this a sticky?...I think once we get going we might have a lot of quotes.
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"Some say the valley has always been haunted ever since River ran.
The rippling waters fast as the colors conceal the Green Man."
Roy Harpur from The Green Man

graylien · Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 174 Location: UK

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
(Martin H. Fischer)

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
(Havelock Ellis)

Real mystics don't hide mysteries - they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight and when you've seen it, it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.
(G.K. Chesterton)
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Gef - the Eighth Wonder of the World

**Skeptical** · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject:

This is one that I used as the basis of an earlier thread but I think it bears repeating:

“Thinking is skilled work. It is not true that we are naturally endowed with the ability to think clearly and logically — without learning how, or without practicing. People with untrained minds should no more expect to think clearly and logically than people who have never learned and never practiced can expect to find themselves good carpenters, golfers, bridge players, or pianists.” -- Alfred Mander

I think it is particularly apropos considering all of the fuzzy-thinkers that seem to inhabit this strange, ufological world of ours.

S
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson

**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2158 Location: Indiana

C'mon people.....I know you all have favorite sayings. Let's hear them!

Cool

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
Arthur C Clarke
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"Some say the valley has always been haunted ever since River ran.
The rippling waters fast as the colors conceal the Green Man."
Roy Harpur from The Green Man

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3225

umm,Wet birds dont fly at night.. Very Happy

roadghost · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 146

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

**TheScamDetective** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1337 Location: California

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli
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"It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Dumbledore
to Harry Potter

Isis · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 246 Location: Berlin, Germany

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

Juan Ramón Jiménez

paulkimball · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:

"Don't believe. Don't disbelieve. Think."

- Me Wink