Ready set go
Life is an attempt to cram as much knowledge as you can into your brain in the time you have available. Rather like an oyster eating contest.
Bon mots
Civil society
The level of civilisation in a country is indirectly proportional to the level of misogyny, which in turn is directly proportional to the level of religion
We vote and we knit
In every society there are always people who happily vote for, and cheer on, the people who run the guillotines, believing, incorrectly, that they will always keep their own heads while all about them are losing theirs.
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Fair exchange
I am sure that anyone whose death is marked by the phrase \”he died doing what he loved\” would rather have had an extra five years of life and then died doing something he hated.
Guns into plowshares
Tired of the nonsense claim that men have to go killing, horribly with high-powered guns, animals because humans have \”inherited\” the tendency to be hunters. Hell, for the last ten thousand years we have been farmers, not hunters, why don\’t these guys get out there with a hoe and a scythe to cultivate the land?
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Sauce for the goose
Time that people convicted of cruelty to animals were treated the same way as people convicted of cruelty to people – no more \”suspended sentences\” and small fines.
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Onward atheist soldiers
No Atheists in foxholes – we\’re all out there charging the enemy.
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Talk to the animals
Hard to think of a country in the world where the most vile and cruel things are done to at least some animals (and easy to think of ones where they are done to many animals). Also hard to think of a country on the world where the most vile and cruel things are done
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A hiding to nothing
Don’t think you know all about music until you’ve gone into Haydn
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