Butters Ungroundable Quotes & Sayings

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it? — Abraham Kaplan

A company shouldn't take value from people's private messages. — Marc Rotenberg

I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough. — Anthony Mackie

Any number of hours later, Mott came with a rock that he said was as shiny as the one I'd had before. He pointed out that it was a little bigger than the other one and looked more valuable. I could have this rock. I only had to return the other one to Conner. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Crusade Produced the first Holocaust:

"The Jews of Mainz try to persuade the crusaders by casting coins and precious goods from their windows . The offering is not sufficient. The crusaders drag families from their dwellings and order them to submit to the christian baptism. The peasants with their scythes and sickles slice the throats of all those who refuse. over 900 suffer martyrdom. Out breaks of the program take place in other cities : Cologne , Trier, Prague and Ratisbon. The anti-jewish sentiment spreads throughout France and England. How many are slaughtered to provide provisions for the Peasant Crusade remains historians' guess. Some say 10,000. — Paul L. Williams

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure. — Daniel Dennett

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. — Eric Allin Cornell

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them. — Robert Breault

He might be a dragon, he might be someone whose name instilled fear in other people, but boy howdy, he sure turned my crank. — Katie MacAlister

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside. — Johan Cruijff

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. — Tommy Armour