'Jules Verne was not the 'mad scientist' some thought him to be. In several of his novels he showed great concern for the dangers of technology/pollution caused by the oil industry/the imminent extinction of whales, and in his 1901 novel 'The Village in the Tree Tops' he exposed the slaughter of elephants for their ivory!'
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Kidd Dabb: The boat doesn't stop at Santa Maria this trip. Geoff Carter: Why not?...
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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
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Bush has cruised through life fueled by booze, drugs and bravado. Hes proud to be an underachiever and he rests comfortably on the laurels of his father. Hes failed at every venture hes ever undertaken. And every mess hes created has been cleaned up for himarrests for drunk driving, cocaine, AWOL from the National Guard and numerous bad business deals. He is a self-made disaster. Yet, he was handed the keys to the kingdomTWICE! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. God help us all.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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Eddie: Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee? Beauclerc: I have no memory of ever being bitten by any kind of bee....
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
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Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
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You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. A...
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
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Animal life, somber mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
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Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Bonnie Lee: Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter, do you really think, I mean, do you really think it was my fault, what happened out there? Geoff Cart...
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Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
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