Favourite Quotes

It's always nice to meet a world leader who has bigger ears than me.

Newt Gingrich: I don't understand why people take an instant dislike to me.

Bob Dole: It saves them time.

I lol'ed at that....

Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, looked at how often books had not been returned, from lots of libraries. And, right, the ethics books were more likely to have been not returned than other philosophy books

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness." social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. I think here, the term religion refers more to ideology. Interesting point though.

“When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but… the mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. “Compromise becomes a dirty word.”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/how-do...see-the-world/

If explicit cognition about morality promotes moral behavior then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books similar in age and popularity. Study 1 found that relatively obscure, contemporary ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students of philosophy were actually about 50% more likely to be missing than non-ethics books. Study 2 found that classic (pre-1900) ethics books were about twice as likely to be missing.

“.....but silence is better than idle words.”

Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of. I will never see a cent from my case. But with the passage and the president’s signature today, I have an even richer reward.

The Euro-zone crisis is effectively over

you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt

.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world....

...punk..

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have the Secret Service accompanying them. In Santorum’s case I think it’s the first time he’s actually ever used protection.

[Stupid is as stupid does] It means that you can't label anyone stupid unless they do something stupid. Forrest was not stupid in his mother's eyes because he didn't do stupid things. And because she was his mother.