"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise." - Peter Singer
"Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." - Author unknown
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sakhalinskii commented on the word playgirls now
The Act of Love - Karin Petersen-Schaefer
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word the universe
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word procrastination now
Perfection in spotaneity.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word unemployment
"You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live." - William Shakespeare
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word utilitarian
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise." - Peter Singer
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word violence
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster." - Friedrich Nietzsche
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word wealth
"Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves." - Muhammad
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word welfare
"Charity begins at home." - Publius Terentius Afer
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word work
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." - Ogden Nash
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word commercialism
“Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.�? - Bob Dylan
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word class
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." Arabian proverb
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word civilization
"Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." - Author unknown
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word city
"City life is millions of people being lonesome together." - Henry David Thoreau
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word charity
"True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense." - Emanuel Swedenborg
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word career
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week" - Robert Frost
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word capitalism
"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business." - Clarence S. Darrow
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word bureaucracy
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honore de Balzac
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word bourgeois
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.�? - Karl Marx
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word behaviour
“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night to day, thou canst not then be false to any man.�? - Shakespeare
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word art
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word alienation
"Without alienation, there can be no politics." - Arthur Miller
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word aesthetic
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word ass
"It's embarrassing as fuck to have an ass!" - Tourette's Guy
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word womb
A more colloquial alternative to swimming pool.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word penetrate
...Oh dear.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word chastity
Something we'd all be better without.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word discharge
Hello, Vietnam.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word wipe
Something you should never forget to do.
July 30, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word bolivia
Evo Morales for president!
July 29, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word chinese watermelon torture
Having one's testicles replaced with a water in order to extract a confession via the urethra.
July 29, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word flog
In the context of BDSM, a rather perverse combination of excrement and astrology.
July 29, 2008
sakhalinskii commented on the word flatulence
My life in a word.
July 29, 2008