Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Venus is now astrologically square with Pluto. That means there isn't a hip planet left.

Jim Critchfield

Logic is like the sword

Samuel Butler, Notebooks

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

Myriam Miedzian

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

Richard M. Daley

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Richard Thompson

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.

Tom Vilsack

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Sherlock Holmes

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Beth Ditto

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

James Elroy Flecker