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Lane Mem. UMC Sermon—Conceptual Christianity

Posted February 20, 2000, 4:18 p.m.

Lane Mem. UMC Sermon—You Should Be Dancing

Posted February 21, 1999, 4:16 p.m.

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Persuasive Speech/Paper)

Posted December 5, 1997, 12:23 p.m.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

A hammer is good only if you stop pounding after the nail is all the way in. Keep pounding and you break the wood.

Scott Adams

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

John Gardner

Simplicity is the sign of truth.

Unknown

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence J. Peter

War is like fishing with a golden net; the loss risked is always greater than the catch can be.

Unknown

Sincerity is a much overrated virtue. We are all capable of persuading ourselves that what is good for us is good for the country.

Milton Friedman

The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to . . . prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Samuel Adams

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Paul Krugman

Some acts are always wrong—that is, intrinsically evil—and may never be done, no matter what the intention or the circumstances.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

Carl Sagan

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

Holy Bible

[I believe] I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

John Brown

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

Teddy Roosevelt

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

Paul the Apostle

Trust everybody . . . but cut the cards.

Finley Peter Dunne

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Robert A. Heinlein

The few must be watched, checked, and often resisted. Tyranny has ever shown a predilection to be in close amity with them, or the one man.

Anonymous

Nothing therefore is to be more avoided, in a free constitution, than uniting the provinces of a judge and a minister of state.

William Blackstone

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