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Random Quotes: Sunday discussion thread August 20, 2006

Posted by Evil Bender in Blogging.
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There’s a pretty cool random quote meme that’s been going around recently. You just browse the random quotations here until you find five that you like. Mine are below. What are quotes that stood out to you? What about the ones I’ve selected? Feel free to make fun!

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 – 1956)

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), “On the Value of Scepticism”
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley, “Proper Studies”, 1927
English critic & novelist (1894 – 1963)

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