One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J.K. Rowling

We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Victor Hugo

People ask me all the time, Hovind, do you think there's intelligent life on other planets? I say, Nope. I taught high school for fifteen years. There is not much intelligent life on this planet.

Kent Hovind

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Jon Bon Jovi

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

William Hazlitt

Truth is inner harmony.

Walther Rathenau

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Louis Pasteur

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

Harvey Milk

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

H. L. Mencken

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Friedrich Nietzsche