Continuing Our Discussion: "What is Self Evident?"

Phil:  "Without agricultural science (8000 BC) it takes about 5000 acres to support one human.   Agrarian science allows the hunter-gatherer to settle down.  One acre can now support one human. (5000 BC)  It's good to know when to plant the seed.

Genesis:   But God had said, “But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die” (2:17).

Plato: "χαθούν στη μετάφραση"

Casca: "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

Phil:  "3500 BC, The Real Estate industry begins.  A man's home is his castle.  Thus the transition from Cave Man to Condo Dweller begins....though some homo sapiens apparently have yet to come out of their caves or make sense of antidisestablishmentarianism."

Plato:  "Η αλληγορία του σπηλαίου."

Phil:  "The fossilized remains of dragons prove their existence, by George!  And to think the ancient Sumerians only mythologized them."

Joseph Campbell:  "A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion."

Phil:  "Tragically Hip? I'm updated traditional myself, but that's another story."

Fred Flintstone:  "Yabba dabba doo!"

Jerry Ruben:  "I invented the term Young Urban Professional, Yuppie."

Jerry Falwell:  “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

Bob Orbin: "Are you gay?"(TTW)

Elvis:  "Elvis the Pelvis? You ain't never caught a rabbit, you ain't no friend of mine."

Phil:  "We're going to need a population explosion to spread the debt around."

JFK:  "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

FDR:  "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."

Mr. President:  "Can you spare a dime, Bro?"

President Barack Obama:  "That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted-or at least, most of the time."

Phil:  "Education, applied science, innovation and entrepreneurship generates real wealth for the people of our nation.  Wall Street spreads the wealth around, thank you."

Will Rogers:  "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Phil:  "Bureaucrats are the kind of people who get in your way and then ask 'How may I help?'  And finally, object to your suggestions and congratulate themselves for a job well done!"

Thomas Jefferson: “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

Phil:  If Warren Buffet were a socialist, he would have given all his money to the government, and let the government save AIG.

DDE:  Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

HST:  "The buck stops here."

Bill O' Reilly:  "The spin stops here."

Anonymous:  "Hip Hip Hurrah!"

Irving Berlin:  "Yip Yip Yaphank!"

Anonymous:  "Hip Hip Hypnotism!"

Henry Fonda:  "G A F!"

Sam:  "Cheers!"

Cliff:  "Salud!"

H. Cohen:  "You little cocksucker.  Are you ready?"(TTW stomping on floor above)

S. Portelli: "No." No."(TTW stomping on floor above)

KoKo the gorilla: "My cat good."

A-RAB: Where you gonna find Bernardo?

Jeff Goldbaum: "Be afraid, be very afraid."

Bernardo:  "I have seen nothing."

Elton John:  "BBBennie and the jets."

Abigail Adams:  “I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic