Jim Tumbls.

Some 5 or 6 or 7 billion years from now, the Sun will become a red giant star and will engulf the orbits of Mercury and Venus and probably the Earth. The Earth then would be inside the Sun, and some of the problems that face us on this particular day will appear, by comparison, modest.

— Carl Sagan

30 November 2011 • quote Carl Sagan problems solar system

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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.

— Robert Anthony

29 November 2011 • quote robert anthony happiness risk happy

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

— Isaac Asimov

21 November 2011 • quote isaac asimov violence incompetence

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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

— H. L. Mencken

16 November 2011 • H. L. Mencken quote politics public office common sense honesty decency

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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

— Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30 October 2011 • quote Diane Frolov Andrew Schneider snowstorm snotoberfest

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

— George Bernard Shaw

7 October 2011 • George Bernard Shaw quote religion happiness

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

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Kurt Vonnegut

I’m not quite sure I fully understand this quote… but there’s something there that I want to know what “the hard way” spoken of here, is.

18 September 2011 • Kurt Vonnegut quote wisdom igorance

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