"What you don't know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible." Abraham Maslow

"There are no desperate situations, only desperate people."-Heinz Guderian, German general (1888-1954)

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El Moose Monstero: That would be the winning song at Eurovision. I still say the Moldovans were more fun. And that one about the Apricot Tree.
That said...it is growing on me.
Thanas: It is one of those songs that kinda get stuck in your head so if you hear it several times, you actually grow to like it.
General Zod: It's the musical version of Stockholm syndrome.

"American politics features a particularly boorish animal called a 'culture warrior,' who imagines that he is working to save Christendom from secularism, Islam, and sexual deviancy, but who, in his own life, doesn't know how to use a fork properly, doesn't chew with his mouth closed, and cannot be personally charming in social settings.

How does this happen? Like Keynesian economists who believe the whole has nothing to do with the parts, the culture warriors imagine that they can steer the culture while being personally piggish, pathetic, and crude -- as if the court of taste and manners will never judge them personally but they are entitled to judge, and to restore and save, the whole of society." - Jeffrey Tucker

"The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius. The people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius." - Antoine de Rivarol

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"I'm just reading through your formspring here, and your responses to many questions seem to indicate that you are ready and willing to sacrifice realism/believability for the sake of (sometimes) marginal increases in gameplay quality. Why is this?"
"Because until I see gamers sincerely demanding that if they get winged in the gut with a bullet that they spend the next three hours bleeding out on the ground before permanently dying, they probably are too." - J.E. Sawyer

"We did these things, and they were glorious. We changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."- Rep. Wilson on funding the Mujhadeen resistance to the Russian invasion.

"Wisdom is not additive; it's maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."- Heinlein

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."- Heinlein

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."- Asimov

"[Creationists] make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."- Asimov

"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"- Churchill

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."- Jefferson

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."- Jefferson

"Once you're forced to hypothesize whole new technologies to keep your conspiracy possible, you've stepped over into the realm of magic. It demands a deep and abiding faith in things you can never know." - S G Collins, director, "Moon Hoax Not"