Quote #24

Is it larger than a bread box?

More from Steve Allen

  1. In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
  2. Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humor.
  3. Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying anim…
  4. No philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful in…
  5. If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in th…
  6. Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality
  7. If. . . we assume that there is no God, it follows that morality is even more important than if there is a Deity. If God exists, his unlimi…
  8. One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

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