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13 Favorite Text Messages/Quotations

1. I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
2. It’s not certain whether the one you have now is the one you’ll be with for the rest of your life. There’s even no guarantee if the one you just met is the one who will love you forever . Because there is no such thing as the ideal man/woman, no such thing as the One. It’s us who can make love to last a lifetime. So if ever somebody asks you, “is he/she the right one?” You can answer: “I’m not sure, but I intend to make him/her my only one.”
3. There seems however to be a problem with some of our most cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably to kill one another. A glance at history, or at the pages of any newspaper, reveals that ideas which divide one group of human beings from another, only to united them in slaughter, generally have their roots in religion. It seems that if our species ever eradicates itself through war, it will not be because it was written in the stars but because it was written in our books; it is what we do with words like “God” and “paradise” and “sin” in the present that will determine our future.” - from the End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris.
4. All are perverse agreement on one point of fundamental importance, however: “respect” for the other faith or for the views of unbelievers, is not an attitude that God endorses. While all faiths have been touched, here and there, by the spirit of ecumenicalism, the central tenet of every religious tradition is that all others are mere repositories of error or at best dangerously incomplete. Intolerance is thus intrinsic to every creed.” - from the End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
5. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss looks long into you. - from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
6. Those who shun the “bad taste” of things will fall flat on the ice. - from Toward an Impure Poetry by Pablo Neruda
7. Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.” - Margaret Atwood
8. The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin… to hold, as man’s sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice, and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code. - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? The evils for which he damn him from reason, morality, creativeness, joy - all of the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standards, are his Sin.” - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
10. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong. But the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only be accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice exists. - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
11. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, social ties, and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
12. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat - Theodore Roosevelt
13. Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God because if there be one, he must approve of the homage of reason than that of blinded fear - Thomas Jefferson

What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.

Forgive me for sounding narcissistic but I have to say, my various blogs - WordPress, Blogger, Multiply and my fave, VOX. *covers mouth and giggles*

Then I open my BlogRovr and open up other people's blogs which now total ten. My current fave is Frivolous Motion.

While reading all of these, it is crucial that I have another tab open on Firefox that has the office website - Every Nation. Need to make sure content is up to date and must write/upload something if it's not.

When I need a shot of deep Christian revelations, I head on over to My Utmost For His Highest.

And since I check my Hotmail at least once a day, I end up lingering on the MSN page when I Logout and find myself drawn into the... Entertainment section. The fashion faux pas are absolutely hilarious!

Of course, must not forget my Twitterholicism. Everyday, I keep a tab open with my Twitter Home on it.