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[What's Burning?]

I ran across this excerpt today and felt like sharing it with the community here however I realized that there was no appropriate thread of famous quotes, racing or otherwise. Here's a starting off point, I hope to see it grow.

In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

[vaptin]

Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes

Ghandi

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

[darwin dali]

Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth

Please always quote with the author's name

[darwin dali]

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal

[f1ea]

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal

I thought it was something that (Salvador) Dali would say to (Charles) Darwin...

[darwin dali]

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal

I thought it was something that (Salvador) Dali would say to (Charles) Darwin...

Peut-être

[What's Burning?]

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal

I thought it was something that (Salvador) Dali would say to (Charles) Darwin...

Like chocolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together.

[Rivelution]

"I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken"


"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
--George Orwell--

[darwin dali]

Life: I take solace in the fact that we are all together in this race to the finish line and none of us will get out of it alive.
DD

[What's Burning?]

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."
~ John James Audubon

[texasmr2]

"Stupid is as stupid does."
~ Forrest Gump

"I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell off."
~ tex

[What's Burning?]

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.­"

Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil

[Stealthgate007]

HADDEN
(laughs) The powers that be have been very busy lately, clawing over each other to position themselves for the game of the millenium. Maybe I can help deal you back in.
ELLIE
I didn’t realize that was out.
HADDEN
Well, maybe not out,but certainly being handed your hat. I’ve had a long time to make enemies, doctor. So many governments, business interests, even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this Earth. I’ll grant them their wish soon enough, but before I do, I wish to make a small contribution, a final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet who have given me... from whom I have taken so much.

I thought I would put some context behind it, but I use the quote "being handed your hat" a lot.