#sm

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier. ↗

— John Coleman

#after #alive #attack #beside #cosmos

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#got #high #high school #i #journalism

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exception #parties #power #seek #varieties

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#drop #five #incredibly #smart #taught

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#affected #all things #between #briefings #candidate

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#eyes #fire #flame #him #i

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#budget deficits #bush #deficits #leader #may

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. ↗

— C.J. Sansom

#xenophobia #men