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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb!

Patrick Star

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

Those aren't really words of wisdom, they're just an obvious ploy by an antitheist to dismiss theism without having to prove his stance. A rather weak ploy at that considering the fact that a hypothesis is, in essence, an assertion without evidence. If every hypothesis was thrown out without being tested because there's no evidence to support it then we'd never learn anything.

How about a couple from the relatively recently deceased Leonard Nimoy.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

without having to prove his own stance

Unless the atheist is a gnostic one, that isn't how it works.

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"We're all gonna make it brah" -Zyzz

You did not fail if you are defeated. you fail when you quit.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than loved for someone who you are now

Those aren't really words of wisdom, they're just an obvious ploy by an antitheist to dismiss theism without having to prove his stance.

Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

Just a good night's sleep, and yesterday's mysteries are today's masteries.

Might controls everything, without strength, you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself

Virgil, Son of Sparda

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

God as depicted in Futurama.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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[Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were tomorrow's a fresh opportunity to make it better.] -unknown

A common quote, most often heard being stated in my history class.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-George Santayana

[quote]Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

-unknown

[quote]It is never too late to be what you might have been.

~Unknown

"Sometimes amusement parks can become.... abusement parks."

Tom Bergeron, AFV