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Airborne Carcinogens and the Little Black Box

Posted November 17, 2001, 12:37 p.m.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Persuasive Speech/Paper)

Posted December 5, 1997, 12:23 p.m.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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We keep on turning [the kaleidoscope of ideas] and making new combinations . . . ; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain

The value of the poem is in . . . elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient.

Edgar Allan Poe

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

George Washington

The reason why we love those who are straightforward is that they make known the truth.

Thomas Aquinas

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

Jesus Christ

The essential prerequisite for building an expert system is to have an expert.

Fred Brooks

Faith rests upon infallible truth . . . [so] the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

Thomas Aquinas

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love—this is an old rule.

Siddhartha Gautama

If a man’s thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect.

Siddhartha Gautama

Sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy, but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

G.K. Chesterton

Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.

Calvin Coolidge

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Protest without serious consideration is dangerous. You have to back up what you say.

Maya Angelou

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

James the Just

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Mark Twain

Then all explanation arises a posteriori; once the picture already exists as phenomenon.

Salvador Dalí

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Freeman Dyson

Science adapts its theory to reality, whereas ideology adapts reality to theory.

Mattias Desmet

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