The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. -Noam Chomsky-
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Basic rules of gun safety 2: Never point a gun at anything you do not intend to destroy. -Jeff Cooper, Col. USMC-
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Basic rules of gun safety 3: Keep your finger off the trigger until on target and ready to fire. -Jeff Cooper, Col. USMC-
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Shower thought: People who don’t use their turn signal won’t even lift a finger to be safe. -Donald Taylor-
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The world asks: Where did we come from? What went wrong? What can we look forward to? Christians have an answer. -Caleb Jones-
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The same God Who made the mosquito also made the cocoa bean.
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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal-
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Why are there interstate freeways in Hawaii?
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If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine. -Buckminster Fuller-
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The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.