The remains of flowing lava, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
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The remains of flowing lava, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
The goal of security systems is the most security for the least amount of trade-offs. The way to do that is to make the party who is best able to mitigate the risk responsible for the risk.
-- Bruce Schneier
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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The greatest impact of computers on the availability of information lies not in their power to manipulate it and to distribute it but in the ease with which they enable it to be gathered.
-- John Browning
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
-- Robert Browning
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
-- Yogi Berra
Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then neither do our nightmares.
-- Charles Kennedy
A solution for one problem, if left in place long enough, becomes the root of another.
-- Anonymous
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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
-- Miles Davis
Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.
-- Robert Graves
People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
-- Roger Ailes (Founder of FOX News)
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.
-- Murray Bookchin (What is Social Ecology?)
When action becomes unprofitable, gather information. When information becomes unprofitable, sleep.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Stephen Hawking
Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)
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