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"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."-- Dan Quayle
The ballast of factual information, so far from being just about to sink us, is growing daily less. The factual burden of a science varies inversely with its degree of maturity. As a science advances, particular facts are comprehended within, and therefore in a sense annihilated by, general statements of steadily increasing explanatory power and compass--whereupon the facts need no longer be known explicitly, that is, spelled out and kept in mind. In all sciences we are being progressively relieved of the burden of singular instances, the tyranny of the particular. We need no longer record the fall of every apple.-- Peter Medawar ("Pluto's Republic")
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal, or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, of course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never, ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country--vote Republican.-- Barbara Ehrehreich ("Automating Politics")
What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
We can assume He wouldn't skulk outside an abortion doctor's kitchen window and shoot him. Jesus wouldn't picket a gay man's funeral and shout "God hates fags." Jesus wouldn't vote a straight Republican ticket. He wouldn't give the commencement address of Bob Jones University. He wouldn't picket the play Corpus Christi. He would not feel the need to defend his heterosexuality. And finally, Jesus would not wear a shirt that read "What would the Trinity do?"-- Tony Norman