“Yeah, well, if I ever get a gun again, I’ll probably shoot him.”
“Why don’t you just ruin his laundry?”
-State of Nature: War by Nicholas Slaughter
“There are these little spots floating around. Are any of you getting this?”
In his most derisive voice, Horace said, “It’s snow, you moron.”
“Fuckin’ A.”
-State of Nature: Civilization by Nicholas Slaughter
"In life a person really only has three choices: to run, to spectate or to commit."
- City of Joy (movie)
"The stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
- Galileo (presumed)
"Billiions of dollars could be saved annually on packaging materials if all shipping boxes and all packages of food in the supermarket were spheres."
- The Pluto Files by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"You might become more skeptical of the conventional wisdom; you may begin looking for hints as to how things aren't quite what they seem; perhaps you will seek out some trove of data and sift through it, balancing your intelligence and your intuition to arrive at a glimmering new idea. Some of these ideas might make you uncomfortable, even unpopular...But the fact of the matter is that Freakonomics-style thinking simply doesn't traffic in morality. As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics presents the actual world."
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
And more on the true scientific method...
"The organization of the solar system, how the solar system came to be the way it is - those are genuine scientific questions. But the labels you give things - no. You're having an argument over something you generate rather than what is fundamental to the universe."
- The Pluto Files by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
"Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of."
- Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician from 1946 to the present notable for his scandalous schemes and intimate connections with the mafia & the Roman Catholic Church.
"There's something wonderful about the way dogs live in the moment. They don't look back. They don't yearn. They don't want what they don't have. Clearly, we are not like that as a nation." - David Frankel, director "Marley & Me"
“Economy in decline. Sound familiar? What a difference three months doesn't make.” - CNBC, January 2009
“Love him or hate him, Bush has undeniably been a President who tried doing things differently, but nevertheless got different results. He is the free-market apostle who wound up ordering massive government intervention. The clarion of free trade and lawful immigration who leaves office with protectionism and isolationism resurgent. The would-be uniter with the wedgelike effect.” - Time, 1/26/09
“We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless it conveyed a different message.” - George W. Bush's final news conference, January 2009.
"Sometimes you misunderestimated me," George Bush, final news conference as President, 1/12/09
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