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Stratos Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4725	Re: Quotables.... Reply #30 - Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently. They are falsely attributed to him. For content: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick
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Bazza Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 331	Re: Quotables.... Reply #31 - Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:13pm Stratos wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm: Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently. They are falsely attributed to him. For content: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick If you say so
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Re: Quotables....
Reply #32 - Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:14pm

Stratos wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm:

Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently. They are falsely attributed to him.

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick

I think Goebbels was the creator of the one about telling a life often enough....

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
― Joseph Goebbels"

coupled with......

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels

and this....

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
― Joseph Goebbels

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/281832.Joseph_Goebbels

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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
― John Adams

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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #33 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:20pm He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. William Drummond
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #34 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:21pm A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired. Adam-Troy Castro
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #35 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:22pm Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. Reza Aslan
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #36 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:24pm I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. Dick Gregory
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #37 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:26pm Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. Charles de Secondat
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Re: Quotables....
Reply #38 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:27pm

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:14pm:

Stratos wrote on Nov 17^th, 2015 at 11:09pm:

Hitler didn't say either of those quotes apparently. They are falsely attributed to him.

For content:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Phillip K. Dick

I think Goebbels was the creator of the one about telling a lie often enough....

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
― Joseph Goebbels"

coupled with......

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
― Joseph Goebbels

and this....

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
― Joseph Goebbels

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/281832.Joseph_Goebbels

Huh? How dat happen - I meant 'modify'.....

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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #39 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:27pm A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #40 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:29pm Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance. Richard Dawkins
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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #41 - Nov 19^th, 2015 at 4:32pm To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: Quotables.... Reply #42 - Nov 20^th, 2015 at 8:04am I borrowed this one from one of Phils posts (hope you don't mind Phil) Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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Re: Quotables....
Reply #43 - Nov 21^st, 2015 at 5:27pm

John Smith wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 8:04am:

I borrowed this one from one of Phils posts (hope you don't mind Phil)

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people.

Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts.

"Those who reject faith will largely be nameless, for their great deeds will be few and their exploits diminished. The great will always have faith while the faithless live and die unregarded and unlamented."

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Reply #44 - Nov 21^st, 2015 at 9:09pm

mariacostel wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 5:27pm:

And it is one-dimensional. Faith goes first where fact often follows. It takes faith to start a business based on something as sill as a 'search engine' on that internet thingy. It takes faith to believe an intellectually disabled child can rise to lead people.

Facts are great, but they will never exceed their limitations. Faith is what takes people beyond mere facts.

wrong way around dopey ...... people have faith in those things because their faith is supported by factual past experiences. We know businesses based on search engines work, there are hundreds out there to prove it. We have faith in intellectually disabled kids rising to lead because they have done so in the past. Your examples are faith based on facts.

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