ratsonjulia

some quotes that i came across the other day while trying to hunt down the line in Baron Munchhausen about the Empress of Russia--couldn't find it...I'll just have to find me another copy of the movie...it seems like a house just isn't a home without a little Munchhausen around...)

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Albert Camus

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese proverb

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
Henry David Thoreau

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings

In the future, geese will be rocket-powered.
Mike Nelson, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.
Nostradamus

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

A great many people think that they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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question: is there a quote that just kinda popped into your head today?