"Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean."

Dye, James on common sense   

"I think we’re in trouble if people don’t stop thinking everything that's going wrong is due to accidental opinions."

Dye, James on trouble   

"We’re being poisoned on a mass scale either accidentally or on purpose. I’m pretty sure it’s the latter because certain powerful people want to reduce population growth on a global scale. "

Dye, James on poison   

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wit   

"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."

Eliot, George on wit
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"Discussion in America means dissent."

Thurber, James on dissent   

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."

Macleish, Archibald on dissent   

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

Bronowski, Jacob on dissent
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"The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal."

Miller, Henry on disasters
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Gibbon, Edward on disasters   

"There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted."

Unknown, Source on dating
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"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on identity   

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Watts, Alan W. on identity
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"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

Woolf, Virginia on conformity
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"The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves."

Walker, Alice on dissent
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"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on diversity
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"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."

Chesterfield, Lord on wit   

"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle on wit
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

Lao-Tzu on water
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"When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented."

Butler, Samuel on water   

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"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."

Tilopa on zen
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"The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing."

Seng-Ts'an on zen
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"You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed."

Mumon on zen   

"The real death of America will come when everyone is alike."

Ellison, James T. on diversity   

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

Voltaire on conformity
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"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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"They've made it clear that anyone who questions the official version of events on 9/11 is politcally incorrect and it is a career-killer for anyone involved with it, making people reluctant to take a position in favor of the CD hypothesis as the talking heads launch attacks against them, deem them insane, and the american people still buy their garbage."

Dye, James on   

"If you listen to the tapes[NORAD tapes on 9/11], it's obvious they were given misinformation. They have no idea what's going on and they weren't even authorized to shoot anything down had they intercepted the planes because they were being given bad information and didn't have authorization from the DoD. One of 4 pilots(they wouldn't authorize more than 4 jets in the air) said that if you were watching CNN you would've had a better idea of what was going on than he did. They tried covering up those tapes for a long time for this reason."

Dye, James on   

"You could read The Inside Story of the 911 Commission, by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton(head of 9/11 commssion) and they state in there that they were purposefully set up to fail and that the whitehouse did everything in their power to impede the investigation while also disallowing any independant investigations to take place."

Dye, James on september 11   

"If standard operating procedure would've have been followed the planes wouldn't have been able to crash into the buildings, they would've been intercepted and then shot down if they didn't comply with their orders. Pilots that worked in that area have stated this as well. In June they changed the operating procedure so couldn't act without the approval of the secretary of defense."

Dye, James on   

"They weren't incapable of learning how to fly a plane because they were trained on U.S. bases and given VISAS by the CIA."

Dye, James on september 11th   

"Physics suggests that it would take the path of least of resistance but all three towers took the path of most resistance."

Dye, James on september 11th   

"Nanothermite is an explosive. You can't accidentally find it anywhere except where it has been used. "

Dye, James on september 11th   

"That's not a conspiracy theory, it's history. "

Dye, James on conspiracy theory   

"Capitalism isn’t the problem and neither is Socialism, its people, specific people, that are wrecking society. "

Dye, James on society   

"John O'Neil [FBI Agent] was onto the terrorist's plot. His operation [Operation Able Danger] was shut down by the CIA. He was reassigned to the 105th of the south tower where he died on September 11."

Dye, James on   

"A working theory is that 9/11 has to do with a think tank group called the Project for a New American Century. In 2000 they wrote a document titled 'Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for a lot of radical changes that came to fruition after 9/11 including the invasion of the middle east, things that they needed a buttload of money to do but didn't have funding. Toward the end they make the statement that before the process of transformation can begin a catalyzing catastrophe needs to occur like a new pearl harbor, otherwise it would've took them decades to do what they wanted to do."

Dye, James on   

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."

Bresson, Robert on novelty
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"A kiss may ruin a human life."

Wilde, Oscar on kisses and kissing
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