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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet


Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724 - 1804)


You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Indian politician (1917 - 1984)


The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.

Isaac Asimov
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)


Bond. James Bond.

Ian Fleming


You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi
Indian politician (1917 - 1984)


Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch
British novelist (1919 - 1999)


It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him.

Irene Thomas


There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Indira Gandhi
Indian politician (1917 - 1984)


The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Iris Murdoch
British novelist (1919 - 1999)


Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch
British novelist (1919 - 1999)


You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

Ian Gabirol


When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)


The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Isabelle Eberhardt


For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958


Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)


Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, 1653
English biographer & fishing author (1593 - 1683)


Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I.F. Stone


Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 - 1727)




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