Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here

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"What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?" Volker Pispers

W. Winckler | As an engineer of many years standing

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"As an engineer of many years standing, I saw that this absurd allowance is only permitted in school books. No engineer would dream of allowing anything of the kind. I have projected many miles of railways and many more of canals and the allowance has not even been thought of, much less allowed for. This allowance for curvature means this - that it is 8” for the first mile of a canal, and increasing at the ratio by the square of the distance in miles; thus a small navigable canal for boats, say 30 miles long, will have, by the above rule an allowance for curvature of 600 feet. Think of that and then please credit engineers as not being quite such fools. Nothing of the sort is allowed. We no more think of allowing 600 feet for a line of 30 miles of railway or canal, than of wasting our time trying to square the circle" W. Winckler

Bertolt Brecht | When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible

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"When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer." Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible

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"Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions." Bertolt Brecht

Dave Smith | basic human liberties

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"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist." Dave Smith

Harry S. Truman | Bait and bleed

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"If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances." Harry S. Truman

David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things

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"Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to receive it as a fact. They thus tacitly give their assent to a theory which, if it had first been presented to them at what are called ‘years of discretion,’ they would at once have rejected. The consequences of evil-teaching, whether in religion or in science, are far more disastrous than is generally supposed, especially in a luxurious laisser faire age like our own. The intellect becomes weakened and the conscience seared." David Wardlaw Scott

Michael Meyen | because it couldn’t learn that anywhere

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"The first bachelor generation is just climbing the university chairs. People who are perfectly trained in their craft, who have internalized the hegemonic ideology, and who are good advertising media for a system that needs academic confirmation in order to be able to continue to say 'democracy'. This generation already determines what 'good science' is. It fills journals, conference programs, and so eventually textbooks, lectures, and seminars - with topics, perspectives, and terms it has taken from the political agenda and the tenders linked to it, and which it doesn't question because it couldn't learn that anywhere." Michael Meyen

Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." Carl Sagan

Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

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"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober." Will Spencer

Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

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"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." Robert A. Heinlein

Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will." Gustave Le Bon

Corrado Balducci | There is an alien presence on earth now

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"There is an alien presence on earth now." Jesuit Monsignor Corrado Balducci

Jesuit Guy Consolmagno | Aliens for their salvation

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"Very soon the nations will look to Aliens for their salvation." "contemporary societies will soon see extraterrestrials as the saviors of mankind" "Jesus might be the son of a star child." Jesuit Guy Consolmagno

Jesuit Pater Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti | information coming from another world

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"Very soon we will not have to deny our Christian faith...but there is information coming from another world, and once it is confirmed it is going to require a re-reading of the Gospel as we know it." Jesuit Father Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti

Michio Kaku | in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method

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"In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK." Dr. Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku | the largest mismatch between theory and experiment

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"Usually in science, if we're off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something's wrong with the theory. We're off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we're off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science." Michio Kaku

Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science

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"In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it." Papst Pius XII

Jean-Luc Godard | Cannes is a propaganda tool

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"Zelensky's intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called "staging": a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not a big deal, but it is just that. The truth of the images is only advancing slowly. Now imagine that the war itself is this aesthetic deployed during a world festival, whose stakeholders are the states in conflict, or rather “interests”, broadcasting representations of which we are all spectators for… you, like me. We often say “conflict of interest”, which is a tautology. There is no conflict, big or small, unless there is interest. Brutus, Nero, Biden, or Putin, Constantinople, Iraq or Ukraine, not much has changed, apart from the mass murder." Jean-Luc Godard | "Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics..."

Plato | No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth

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"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato

Plato | Those who tell the stories rule society

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"Those who tell the stories rule society." Plato

Nikolas Schreck | Satanism is a religion for the elite

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“Satanism is a religion for the elite, it is a religion for leaders, it's a religion for competent people, it's not a religion for anyone who wants to be a Satanist” Nikolas Schreck

Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

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"I'm a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way

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"Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way" Neil deGrasse Tyson

Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints

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"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." Smedley Darlington Butler

Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

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"You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts" Rumi

Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen

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"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened." Charles T. Tart

Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths

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"If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday's lies as today's truths, then tomorrow's whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake." Erich Limpach

Billy Corgan | the old deal-with-the devil stuff

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"The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on." Billy Corgan

Dr. Angela Merkel | all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made

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"But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social market economy, rearmament, the treaties with the East, the NATO dual decision, the adherence to unity, the introduction of the euro and also the increasing assumption of responsibility by the Bundeswehr in the world - almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans. Only in retrospect did the attitude of the Germans change in many cases. I also think it's reasonable for the population to look at the outcome of a measure first and then form a judgment about it. I think that is an expression of the primacy of politics. And that should also be adhered to." Dr. Angela Merkel

Aldous Huxley | the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." Aldous Huxley