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YouTube – Mrs. Betty Bowers: Less is Mormon!.

I love the Thomas Jefferson quotes @ the bottom of the video.
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the [...]

Eventually she returned to their hiding place and found Anne’s diary, its pages scattered over the floor.
She intended to return it to its author, knowing how important the diary had been to her, and locked it away without reading a word. Nearly a year later, [...]

Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. This does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize. Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create [...]

YouTube – NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill.

This vote is not about politics
It’s not about Democratic politics or Republican politics
It’s not about who contributed to what campaign
It’s not about who tried to make this body one party or another
It has absolutely nothing to do with this.
This vote is about an issue [...]

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Can’t you just be satisfied that if I’m wrong about God that I’ll burn in hell?
via “Bones” The Priest in the Churchyard (2007) – Memorable quotes.
I made this post as a draft back in September but I just found it when I upgraded Wordpress.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the crazy right wing [...]

Said Bond: “When someone asks me, ‘are gay rights civil rights?’ my answer is always, ‘Of course, they are.’ Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is no one in the United States who does not, or should not, enjoy [...]

Feb 11 2006
During a quail hunting trip, Vice-President Dick Cheney takes aim at a small bird but instead manages to shoot his friend Harry Whittington in the face. As a result of being peppered with birdshot, Whittington has a minor heart attack but lives to apologize to his friend.
via Daily Rotten: Weird News.
“Sweet googly moogly [...]

“I think the government should recognize the union between people whether they’re gay or not in whatever the language they choose, whether they call it a marriage or a civil union, it’s up to them. If the government is going to be in the business of recognizing people grouped together as couples, then they need [...]

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that [...]

Underground Value: Notable Quotes

“Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.”
–Theodore Roosevelt.
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
– Unknown
“Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.”
–Weston H. Agor
I’m [...]

HPL: Essays – Harry Potter and the Good Life
Genuine courage lies on a mean between cowardice and recklessness. Excellences of character generally follow the same pattern, each lying between extremes of excess and deficiency, as Aristotle observes.
I was trying to find a good quote for some things that were said in business ethics and ended [...]

Overheard in the Office | The Voice of the Cubicle
sometimes Overheard in the Office ends up being funnier than the stupid stuff people apparently say in NY.

Overheard in New York | Of Which There Is None at This Alleged “Bar”
Of Which There Is None at This Alleged “Bar”
Technician: It will cost a hundred and fifty dollars to have our technicians look at it.
Girl with computer problem: A hundred and fifty dollars?! No way. I’d rather spend that on alcohol.
–Apple Store [...]

Ex-President Urges Public Role for Grads – washingtonpost.com
“You are only a free person when you recognize that every moment of every day, no matter what happens to you, no matter what is said to you, no matter what is done to you or your crowd, you still are free to decide how to respond.”
I was [...]

Apple – Thoughts on Music
So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none.
Steve Jobs on why DRM is bad and useful to no one