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- From: mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:09:55 GMT
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- Hi, here's some quotes from my finger plan file. Most are from a book by
- Lawrence J. Peter called "Peter's Quotations". (Anyone know if he has
- a second volume out?) - mike contento
-
- I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States.
- The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.
- -Arthur Godfrey
-
- If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation
- was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation.
- - The Old Farmers Almanac
-
- An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
- - Francis Thompson
-
- On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God,
- for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
- - Laurence J. Peter
-
- The agnostics prayer: "O God, if there is a god, save
- my soul, if I have a soul"
- - Ernest Renan (1823-1890)
-
- I believe that there is one God and that this country was established with that
- foundational belief; that our morality emanates from our Divine Creator, whose
- laws are not subject to amendment, modification, or revision by man."
- - Rush Limbaugh
-
- Show me the man who doesn't want his gun registered, and I
- will show you a man who shouldn't have a gun.
- - Homer Cummings
-
- By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired
- at whim, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred
- have become popular pastimes.
- - Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
- With all the violence and murder and killings we've had in the
- United States,I think you will agree that we must keep firearms
- from people who have no business with guns.
- - Robert F. Kennedy (May 1968)
-
- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think
- like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
- -Sydney Harris
-
- Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except those
- that just don't add up. - James Magary
-
- Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing.
- Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. - Boris Marshalov
-
- Any party that takes credit for the rain must not be surprised
- if its opponents blame it for the drought. - Dwight W.Morrow
-
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where
- there is no river. - Nikita Krushchev
-
- Nobody believes a rumor in Washington until its officially
- denied. - Edward Cheyfitz
-
- How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a
- city that goes around in circles!
- - John Mason Brown
-
- Democracy without morality is impossible.
- - Jack Kemp
-
- Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion
- and morality are indispensable supports. And let us with caution indulge the
- supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
- - George Washington (Farewell Address)
-
- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
- One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to
- total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- - Woody Allen
- --
- [mike contento] I'm a walking ecomomy - my hairline's in a recession,
- [ univ.of pgh.] my waist is a victim of inflation, and together
- [mpc+@pitt.edu] they're putting me in a deep depression!" -M. Segal
-