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These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/w5gqkjb2  ·   Fair (21 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Educators cannot dictate from a stand of "religious neutrality." It is impossible. Firstly, because morality is innately a religious question-- whom do we answer to, and for what.
Secondly, when the teacher banishes the priest, the minister, and the rabbi from the schoolroom, she is implicitly declaring her own religious views-- the religion of agnostic humanism-- to be morally superior to them all....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/tv6bbfq8  ·   Fair (39 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Fables Certain People Should Read:

the National Endowment of the Arts:
"The Emporer's New Clothes"

RHJunior

tiny.ag/rmk6bd1d  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Fables Certain People Should read:
Environmentalists: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

RHJunior

tiny.ag/flvcysut  ·   Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Pro-abortionists and death penalty opponents run in the same circles for an obvious reason. Whether they admit it or not they are both married to the same ugly moral proposition: the right to kill with impunity.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/snykjrwq  ·   Fair (37 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

As a people, we make less stringent demands of scientific proof from people claiming environmental catastrophe than the average tabloid makes of alien abductees.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/n05fegko  ·   Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Lifes an bitch, then it bites back.

Anonymous

tiny.ag/abbma2d4  ·   Fair (34 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Im much to young to feel this damn old.

Garth Brooks, "Much to young to feel this damn old"

tiny.ag/thklgnhe  ·   Fair (31 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

The wisest people in the world are those who know that they don't know everything.

Connor Gleason, just made it up

tiny.ag/xqgbsl9x  ·   Fair (33 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Everything is a fact, until proven otherwise

Raoul Stasse, a fact remains a Theory

tiny.ag/fqvyndnb  ·   Fair (37 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

"The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons."

William James

tiny.ag/pqelun67  ·   Fair (24 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

Ancient latin saying, "Of the Dead, speak nothing but Good"

tiny.ag/olfn6fia  ·   Fair (27 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

All we're really doing right now is killing time until time kills us.

Timothy LeVan

tiny.ag/2hqbi8cp  ·   Fair (29 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Love represented in mathematics is an infinite function. Limitless and Continuos and unbounded by time

Ameya, Experience

tiny.ag/qag0tzpn  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Inventions are the mother of necessity

Unknown

tiny.ag/q18jpmot  ·   Fair (35 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Curiosity might have killed the cats, but ignorance kills the society.

Salle

tiny.ag/d6kmojtb  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

When I dream I create my own reality, and thus I have proved that I am the God of all.

Salle

tiny.ag/hcq5cz1x  ·   Fair (30 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Why commit suicide, when you can't hear the brotherly talk afterwards?

Rincewind

tiny.ag/hkixpgnf  ·   Fair (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

It's a fucked up world, where lust is love and love is lost...

Rincewind

tiny.ag/b1xs485l  ·   Fair (34 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That GodÂ’s name is Abraxas ... whose symbolic task is the uniting of godly and devilish elements.

Hermann Hesse, Demian

tiny.ag/nqge2kaw  ·   Fair (23 ratings)  ·  submitted 2001

Love is ninety percent proximity and ten percent the right person.

W. Arthur Mackey, A quote by my late father.

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