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“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
-- Rick Warren
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."
-- Jack Wagner
Joe: Deb, what are you doing?
Debra: I just wanted to have a little chat with Warren.
Warren: Oh yeah? Well have a little chat with my gun!
Debra: [into the barrel of Warren's gun] What do you want Warren?
Warren: STOP CALLING ME WARREN! MY NAME ISN'T FUCKING WARREN!
Debra: Well you can't kill me cause I'm already dead. And I talked to God and she says, "Yo, Wassup?" and she wants you to lose the gun.
Warren: What? You are psycho! You're a psycho!
(Empire Records)
"SPOOOOOOON!"
-- The Tick
Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary.
-- Frederick Dunn
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-- Friedrick Nietzsche
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Must... defy... laws... of... physics!"
-- The Tick
"We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases."
-- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.
-- Perry Farrell
Never try to lick a glacier.
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
-- Stanley Kubrick (in an interview with The Guardian, 5th June 1963)
War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left.
Angst, n: A form of suffering caused by too much thinking; a phenomenon probably considered incomprehensible by those who own a recreational vehicle.
-- Rick Bayan (The Cynic's Dictionary)
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-- John LeCarre
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.
-- Frederick Douglass
Whenever you fall, pick someone up.
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night."
-- Andy Warhol
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
-- Philip K Dick
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.
No, you may not speak freely. This is America. We have a high moral hypocrisy to uphold.
-- Shannon Thomas Pricket
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett
The skin of civilization is only 7 meals thick
Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
-- Nick Hertl
All warfare is based on deception.
-- Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
-- Philip K. Dick
Anyone with a bit of intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business.

The trick was to do magic and get away with it.
-- Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."
-- David Byrne
"The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
-- P. B. Medawar
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett ("Playboy", 1971)
In case of nuclear war, prayer in schools will be okay.
War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...
"Some songwriters wash their dirty linen in public. Tori Amos dries hers there as well."
-- Nick Coleman (on Tori Amos)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
-- Mao Zedong ("Quotations from Chairman Mao," 1966)
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-- Ingrid Bergman
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Politics is storytelling. We just pick the one we like best.
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon
"Warning: may cause drowsiness"
(warning label on Nytol sleep aid)
The haunting fragrance of her mysterious perfume lingered with me long after the blinding sting of her pepper spray had faded.
-- Nick DeCamp
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.
(Batman Costume warning label)
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
-- George Orwell
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
-- Andy Warhol
"If hackers ran the world, there'd be no war. Lots of accidents, maybe."
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)
On going to war over religion:
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
"You ever hear of the Spartans, Lewis? Ancient Greece...traditional enemies of the Athenians? They were a warrior society. I'll try to make it simple for you...they were Klingon."
(The Rhipodon Society)
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick