A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary
Author: Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. - When Harry Met Sally
"This is the first day of the rest of out lives" - Dante, Clerks II
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look once in awhile, you could miss it
- Ferris Beuler
Ferris Beuler's Day Off
My dear boy, if God had intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates
- Willy Wonka
Friends are thieves of time.
- Francis Bacon
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
- Alphonse Karr
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
- Emo Philips
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet
- Henry Youngman
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
- John Wayne
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
- Dick Cavett
In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
- Emo Philips
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost:
Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. At this moment, this is me at my most masochistic.
The Bride: Bill, it's your baby.
BANG!
- Kill Bill
“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why dont you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.”
- Marilyn Manson
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6 comments:
The first quote by Emo Phillips is amazing!
I strongly disagree with Marilyn Manson, however. His quote smacks of Margaret Sanger's ideas on forced sterilization for minorities.
I think he was trying to illustrate that too many idiots have children and don't know how to take care of them, thus leaving the children in an innapropriate state of mistreatment. I mostly just thought it was funny, but also somewhat true. If you can't take care of a child should you have one?
But who is to make the judgment about who is fit to take care of a child or not? In a world that increasingly distrusts Christians might it not be that someone could claim that Christians have a bad influence on their children and should be banned from having them? What about forced sterilization for the impoverished?
California has a law banning spanking as a means of discipline, so we can see that the government is already getting involved in how children are raised.
I don't think anyone can say " You, you can have kids. But you, you can't". However I think there is some validity in asking if it's appropriate for someone to raise a child that is incapable of properly raising one.
So what should happen instead? Should children be taken away from their parents if the parents are "unsuitable?" And again, who decides who is unsuitable?
I do not know that answer to that question. There are a lot of variables that enter into that as well. It's a difficult one, ta be shoor.
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