- Favourite Quotes -
"The Essence of Life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale"
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
"How thoughtful of god to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the truth one"
"I am not an enthousiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned"
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
- Richard
Dawkins –
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“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind..
it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
- William Thomson -
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
- Oscar Wilde -
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"To
the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders“
"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will
fall into place.”
“When I
let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
- Lao
Tze - ---
The longer you live, the shorter it'll be..
- Jules Deelder -
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"Being the eldest son with 8 siblings, I have no family.. just blood rivals."
- Richard K -
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"A Hollander is a person who buys from a Jew, sells it to a Scott and still makes an honorable profit..!"
- Anouk Johanna -
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- Johan Cruyff -
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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an
uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence."
-
Bertrand Russell -
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"When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid..
- Anonym -
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"You can
fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but
you cannot fool all the people all the time."
- Abraham
Lincoln -
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"Son, if you are 15 years old and you're not a socialist, then you have no heart. But if your 50 and you are still a socialist.. then you have no brains!"
- Gerard, my dad in 1969 -
- Gerard, my dad in 1969 -
"He was right.."
- Richard K. in 2004 -
- Richard K. in 2004 -
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
- Heraclitus -
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct"
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by
reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third
by experience, which is the bitterest."
-
Confucius -
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
- Albert Einstein -
"Discipline
is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to
the weak, and esteem to all. "
- George
Washington -
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"Never interrupt your enemy when she is making a
mistake."
-
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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" A beautiful woman is not always attractive.. but an attractive woman is always beautiful."
- LordKlop -
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"Thank god this devout muslim modestly covered her hair..!"
- Anonym -
“Women
are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
“A
man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction."
- Oscar
Wilde
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“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
- Frank
Zappa -
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"I hold it that a little
rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world
as storms in the physical."
- Thomas
Jefferson -
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"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet..!"
- Keith Richard -
- Keith Richard -
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