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  • When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes
  • There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes
  • I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Chambers Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Baldwin Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes