Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ...

by compound complex 215 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  carla

  I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei
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  compound complex

  And what is so rare as a day in June?
  Then, if ever, come perfect days; ...

  --- JUNE, from "The Vision of Sir Launfal,"
  James Russell Lowell

  Poems are made by fools like me,
  But only God can make a tree.

  --- TREES
  Sargeant Joyce Kilmer
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  Uncertain

  Found in Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi : "curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" Vladimir Nabokov
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  John Doe

  "Judges are a lot like Sea Gulls. They squawk a lot. Sh** a lot. Waddle around a lot. And they don't flap their wings or fly unless you poke them with a stick."--Mullane, Professor of Criminal Law
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  IP_SEC

  Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people

  ER
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  flipper

  " Sitting is important in standing out. Outstanding sitting will set you in good standing ." From the book " Son of Mad " circa 1960 or thereabouts. William Gaines the creator. Peace to you CoCo. Mr. Flipper
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  Sunnygal41

  "Odd thoughts are useful in this process of liberation; allow them to flap about wildly rather than immediately rejecting them as irrelevant."

  ~ ~ Edward Gorey, "The Disrespectful Summons"
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  emy the infidel

  It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
  -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

  "I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets." -- Vladimir Lenin
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  loosie

  An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.
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  compound complex

  Approved association with Jehovah's Witnesses requires
  accepting the entire range of the true teachings of the Bible,
  including those Scriptural beliefs that are unique to Jehovah's
  Witnesses.

  --- 4/1/86 WT, p. [?]

  Often false prophets, when caught, try to shift the emphasis
  by falling back on their humanity. They would like everyone
  to forget the original facade and arrogance as they pretended
  to be the pipeline to the Holy Spirit.

  --- Kurt Goedelman