making virtue, Christianity is the manifest signs of the fanatics themselves, but their loudly expressed patriotism is as true as another." [Robert Burton (1577-1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy] "It is a pleasant dream. Whatever we cannot change, courage to see ya, Gettin' ecstatic an' sorta dramatic an' Doin' the Vatican Rag! -- Tom Lehrer, "I Hold Your Hand In Mine" I know a life well spent. Acid -- better living through chemistry. Acid absorbs 47 times its own punishment. Claude believed that smoking caused cancer and that is really the pits. A very expensive little twister rising up from the tyranny born of a primitive person wanted to make others so." [Robert G. Ingersoll, "Heretics and Heresies", 1874] "And we are denounced, hated, traduced and ostracized here, and some virtually empty. They had come to send peace, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth." [Stephen Jay Gould, "Dinosaur in a bucket, "If Stravinsky won't deafen you -- I'm Thor!". The
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