If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free...
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle valcilando. It does not mean vacillating...
People tend to believe only what they can see -- that's perfectly natural and reasonable. But what if everybody saw in black and white and you could see ...
There is no question that psychedelic substances are remarkable graces. The farther one can reach in to the vastness to be explored, the more one realizes how...
What makes for a great carnival? I've pondered this question, as I've watched, year by year, the Notting Hill Carnival in London expanding to become the...
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that...
Jack recently became a citizen of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (http://www.krev.org), where he will serve as the Minister of Heresy. Jack is eminently...
Wife: Arrest him! More: For what? Wife: He's dangerous! Roper: For all we know he's a spy! Daughter: Father, that man's bad! More: There's no law against that!...
"What do you live on?" [the ant asked.] "On air, light and sun," said the may-fly. "That's frivolity," said the ant. "You could live on that one day, no...
Much that is horrific and inhuman in history in which one can hardly bear to believe is likewise ameliorated when we consider that he who ordered it and he who...
The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in meditative, liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this...
The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will...
I've made some changes to the biography section of Food For Thought (www.junkFoodForThought.com), last updated 21 April 2000! I updated many listings (people...
I've made another update to the biography section of Food For Thought (www.junkFoodForThought.com). There are 1960 new names, and 500+ updated, clarified,...
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a...
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We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their...
Food For Thought (www.junkFoodForThought.com) has been updated. In addition to new and corrected quotations, biography entries, and essays, FFT has been...
Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always, or [would] not always be,...
Food For Thought (www.junkFoodForThought.com) has been updated: I added and updated biography entries. The new count is 28962. Happy winter or summer! Jack...
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. - William Shenstone (1714-1763) "Of Men and...
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father...
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritcal. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. - Jean Kerr (b.1923) _Finishing...
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the...
...the heaviest of all penalties is to be governed by a worse man, in case of one's own refusal to govern; and it is the fear of this, I believe, which induces...
Food For Thought (www.junkFoodForThought.com) has been updated. I have added new quotations, new biography listings, and updated and corrected quotations and ...
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction...
Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked...
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