Timicist Proverbs

Quotes that embody the spirit of Timicism:

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I believe that the desire to love and be loved is the strongest force on earth.

Joel Derfner

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The best science, like the best engineering, often comes from understanding not just how things are, but how else they could have been.

Gary Marcus

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Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.

Stenciled on a pencil at a UU church

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If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting!

Jack Handey

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Humor is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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Sex is dirty. Share it with someone you love.

Marty Klein, explaining the Fear and Danger narrative in our country

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I don't want any grace that I didn't earn.

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All you need is love.

John Lennon

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These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called the father, son, and holy ghost. The ate crackers and wine or grape juice, believing that they were eating the son's body and drinking his blood. If they believed strongly enough, they would live on forever after they died.

James Loewen, illustrating how simplistic descriptions of Native American religions in American history textbooks sound.

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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Marge, you can save a lot more souls with roller skates and easy-bake ovens than you can with this two-thousand page sleeping pill. [Holding up a Bible.]

Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons

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Slavish obedience to a principle constitutes no choice at all. It seems to me that our intelligence is there precisely so that we can be flexible and adapt.

The Dalai Lama XIV

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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All I'm asking for you do to
Is live by this simple creed I give to you
Just take five minutes out of your day
And rub somebody the right way

The Rugburns

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But Marge, TV gives so much and asks for so little in return.

Homer Simpson

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You never know when the greased pig of happiness will run squealing from your grasp.

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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Jack Handey

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Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad... [he] gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.

Chef from South Park

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The only zen you find on the top of mountains is the zen you bring up there.

Robert Pirsig

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Gandhi

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Let's get it on.

Marvin Gaye

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

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My karma ran over my dogma.

Bumper Sticker

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You must just acknowledge deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, and all those other activities-- playing the trumpet, vacuuming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse-- are just ways of passing the time until you can fuck again.

Cynthia Heimel

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If God hadn't meant us to masturbate, he'd have made our arms shorter.

George Carlin

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I don't want other people thinking for me.

Jimmy Buffett

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Give me ambiguity, or give me something else.

Anonymous

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If you think your life is a movie you'll be sorry as you can be

Garrison Keillor

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If God is not in my cat, then there is no God.

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