>>>>>No matter how brilliant a man, s/he can't be a good president if s/he is not God fearing. I think Sarah Palin can be a good U.S. president...
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>>>>I think they need to believe in magic as well.
>>>you mean sufficiently advanced technology?
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>>Any sufficiently advanced civilization, no longer believes in magic.
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>That's a subjective statement and not necessarily true.
A sufficiently advanced civilization is open to magic, questions it, and attempts to understand it. "Magic" is redefined as we apprehend it with an open mind.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
