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"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."	Roger Nash Baldwin
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."	Erich Fromm
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."	William Lloyd Garrison
"I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally."	Abraham Lincoln
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."	André Maurois
"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue."	Dolly Payne Todd Madison
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books."	Bill Maher
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power."	Angel Blessing
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."	Frank Moore Colby
"The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."	Euripides
"It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about."	Barbara Friedman
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I have not yet begun to fight!"	John Paul Jones
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Charles Robert Darwin	Chief Joseph	Clarence Seward Darrow
Dave Barry	David Hume	Dennis Martin
Dolly Payne Todd Madison	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Watson Howe
Edward Gibbon	Elbert Hubbard	Emile Coue
Erich Fromm	Eric Lustbader	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Frank Moore Colby
Franz Kafka	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	George Herbert Walker Bush
Gerald R. Ford	Golda Meir	Gurdjieff
G Gaia	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Herbert Butterfield
Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Corbett	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Joyce
James Russel Lowell	Joe Moore	John Locke
John B. Gough	John Fellows Akers	John K. Hutchens
John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert	J. Deville
J. Martin Kohe	Kathleen Norris	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Max Lucado
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Paulo Freire	Paxton Blair	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher	T. Lehrer
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton	William Lloyd Garrison