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Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything... just give him time to rationalize it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty, but I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sidwell

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
P.J. O’Rourke

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It's not the men in my life that counts… it's the life in my men.
- Mae West

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
- Ed Gardner

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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication.
- Thomas Jefferson

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If nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture, and I prefer houses to the open air.
- Oscar Wilde

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman

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No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- Samuel Johnson

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
- Emo Philips

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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen J. Gould

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
- Franklin P. Jones

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

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The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
- Dave Barry

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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
- Alexandre Dumas

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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
- Thucyclides

My final itinerary for the US

Ok, I think I have the intinerary for my summer trip to the US ready now.

6/22 Oslo - London - Los Angeles. Flying out wth a looooong wait in London. Getting mah rental car.
6/23 Los Angeles - Victorville - Death Valley. Hooking up with friends in Victorville.
6/24 Death Valley - Mammoth Lakes. Drive through Death Valley NP, up by Lone Pines (and possibly up Mt Whitney) to Mammoth Lakes.
6/25 Mammoth Lakes - Yosemite NP - Fresno. Visit one of Americas purdiest places.
6/26 Fresno - Victorville - El Cajon. Back through King's Canyon NP and Sequoia NP, drop friends off in Victorville.
6/27 El Cajon - Yuma. Hand over some stuff to friends in San Diego, continue on with mah looooonesome part of the trip.
6/28 Yuma - Phoenix. Visit Yuma Territorial Prison and Yuma Quartermaster Park to get some history & culture. Maybe hit Phoenix early enough to visit AZ statehouse.
6/29 Phoenix - Albuquerque. Visit Barry Goldwater's gravesite. Continue on through some lovely national forest lands and Petrified Forest.
6/30 Albuquerque. Drive up to Sandia Peak, maybe a stroll around old town and Albuquerque museum.
7/1 Albuquerque - Santa Fe. Palace of the Governors, New Mexico State Museum.
7/2 Santa Fe. Bandelier National Monument, Valles Caldera.
7/3 Santa Fe - Farmington. Chaco Culture National Historical Place.
7/4 Farmington. Roundtrip to see Durango, Mesa Verde and Canyons of the Ancients.
7/5 Farmington - St George. See Canyon de Chelly and Horseshoe Bend.
7/6 St George - Carson City. Drive past Area 51.
7/7 Carson City. Nevada State Museum and Nevada State Capitol.
7/8 Carson City - Yreka. Some lovely scenery, including Mount Shasta.
7/9 Yreka - Crater Lake - Eureka. More lovely scenery in Oregon and Northern California.
7/10 Eureka - Red Bluff. Several purdy areas in the forests between I-5 and the Pacific Ocean.
7/11 Red Bluff - Sacramento. Old Sacramento and Sacramento History Museum.
7/12 Sacramento, Sutter’s Fort and California Museum.
7/13 Sacramento - Palo Alto.
7/14 Palo Alto.
7/15 Palo Alto - Fresno.
7/16 Fresno. Meeting up with friends.
7/17 Fresno - Three Rivers. Had in mah rental car in Fresno in the afternon. Meeting up with yet more friends.
7/18 Three Rivers. Doing Sequoia and King's Canyon again.
7/19 Three Rivers - Mammoth Lakes. Driving up to Yosemite.
7/20 Mammoth Lakes roundtrip. Doing Yosemite in depth.
7/21 Mammoth Lakes - Carson City. Doing the Lake Tahoe area.
7/22 Carson City - Klamath Falls.
7/23 Klamath Falls - Crater Lake Lodge. Doing Crater Lake. Again. Because I can.
7/24 Crater Lake Lodge - Twin Falls. Drive through rural Oregon. Should be interesting.
7/25 Twin Falls - Jackson - Gardiner. See the Shoshone Falls area and then the Tetons. Might suffer from purdiness overload.
7/26 - 7/28 Gardiner. Yellowstone ad nauseam for three days.
7/29 Gardiner - Kalispell. Up to Glacier Park through rural Montana.
7/30 Kalispell - Dillon. Glacier National Park.
7/31 Dillon - St George. Long ass trasportation day.
8/1 St George roundtrip. Bryce NP & Zion NP.
8/2 St George - Inglewood. Wave goodbye to my friends.
8/3 Inglewood - London. Fly home late in the evening.
8/4 London - Oslo. Touchdown late in the evening.

Quote of the Day

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
- Cullen Hightower

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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.
- The Harvard Lampoon

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
- Rose Macaulay

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
- William Hazlitt

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Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
- Orson Scott Card

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Teddy Roosevelt

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
- Emile Zola

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The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual'.
- Winston Churchill

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilized body.
- Oscar Wilde

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Take all your dukes and marquises and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.
- Charles Krauthammer

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Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nor is the people’s judgement always true
The most may err as grossly as the few
- John Dryden

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev

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My prayer to God is a very short one: "O Lord, make mine enemies ridiculous." God has granted it.
- Voltaire

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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
- Ed Koch

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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place.
- Bob Dole

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson

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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings".
- Dave Barry

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The book you don't read can't help.
- Jim Rohn

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.
- Joseph Lewis

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There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- George Bernhard Shaw

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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices his wife.
- Richard Willard Armour

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The public is a fool.
- Alexander Pope

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He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
- Thomas Fuller

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We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

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The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
- Donald G. Smith

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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain

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If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.
- De La Rochefoucauld

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To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
- Charlton Heston

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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
- George Washington

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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
- William Orville Douglas

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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
- Kofi Annan

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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
- G. Gordon Liddy

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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
- Carl Sagan

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke

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Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
- Jules Feiffer

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson

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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
- Charles de Gaulle

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It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.
- Rick Bode

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
- Emo Philips

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
- James Madison

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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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Homosexuality is God’s way of insuring that the truly gifted aren’t burdened with children.
- Sam Austin

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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
- Oscar Wilde

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov

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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
- Voltaire

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king... and the one-eyed man with the high heels and the feather boa is queen.
- Dr. Squid

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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
- Thomas Paine

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Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
- Jack Handy

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
- James Russel Lowell

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
- Thomas Paine

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Go, and never darken my towels again.
- Groucho Marx

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
- George Halas

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‘DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING’, said Death. ‘JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.’
- Terry Pratchett

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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
- Maya Angelou

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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois

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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a charlatan and a number of silly women.
- Marquis de Sade

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Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?
Calvin: Denial.
Miss Wormwood: I don’t suppose I can argue with that...
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
- Harry S. Truman

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Satire is focused bitterness.
- Leo C. Rosten

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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
- A. Whitney Brown

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It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.
- Friedrich Nietzsche