Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Ben Franklin:  "Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

William Congreve:  "Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury than a woman scorned."

Carl Jung:  "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Phil:  "Love is a charitable assertion of magnanimous selfishness, synergistically speaking, especially when perpetrated with a smile. Apparently quite effective for propagating the species!  And why not?  Life is such a lovely, delicate biochemical expression of dynamic dimensional equilibrium at this magnification of the ununified field, with such an innate genetic appetite for molecular self-replication, who wouldn't think her quarks are astonishing?  Simply electric!  The universe has a personality!"

Anonymous 1:  "No it doesn't!"

Anonymous 2:  "Yes it does!"

R. Buckminster Fuller:  "Love is metaphysical gravity."

Robert Teller:  Spontaneous Combustion. 

Robert Oppenheimer:  Fusion!

Shirley Jones:  "There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, no I never saw them at all, till there was you."

Timothy Leary:  "What's she on?"

Richard Avedon:  "Picture yourself in a pink submarine in the river of Spacetime."

Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans:  "Happy trails to you, until we meet again."

Albert Einstein:  "Gravitational lensing!"

Fred Astaire:  "He loves and she loves."

Eric Schmidt:  "Give me a minute."

Phil:  "Would you like that in an electron volt credit?"

Professor Donald Johansson:  "Australopithecus afarensis"

Richard Leakey:  "I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa."

Eldridge Cleaver:  "Black is Beautiful"

Professor Harold Hill:  "Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital "T" And that rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool."

L. Hubbard:  "Criminally insane paranoid?  Would you like to see my etchings?"

Church Lady:  "Could it be.....Satan!"

Ron Howard:  "Gary, Indiana!"

Khrushchev:  "We will bury you."

Anonymous FBI agent:  "Yeah, I can understand your feeling the need to kidnap your own daughter.  It was a nasty set of divorces!  Polygamy.   Losing custody and all.  Hard to erase those memories?"

Lt Colombo:  "Oh, Just one more thing.   Why did you take her to Cuba?  KGB?  Fidel?  Casinos?  DesiLu?  George Raft?  Monroe Doctrine?  Friends of yours?"

Anonymous FBI agent:  "The locked cage in the jungle, that's not as easy to understand.  Not exactly a place to keep you daughter if you had gotten custody."

Nicholas Cage:  "Did you see 'National Treasure?'"

George Clooney:  "Gary Coleman."

Lt Colombo:  "Were you paranoid that somebody might kidnap her?"

Beach Boys:  "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo."

Ed Koch:  "He is a crook, but I like him.... Most politicians still like De Sapio. He always gets the most applause when he is introduced at Democratic dinners."

Richard Nixon:  "Well, I'm not a crook!"

Thomas Jefferson: "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river; & such principal stream of it, as by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purpose of commerce."

Dr Carl Sagan:  “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Phil:  "My thoughts exactly.  We are The Physics of Music, The Universal Laws of Nature, The Cosmic Consciousness of the Multiverse waking up to give itself a breast exam, galactically speaking, of course."

Neil deGrasse Tyson:  "After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"

Galileo:  “The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”    

Edwin Hubble:  "I can see clearly now!"

Ben Franklin:  "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Phil:  "One may wish to ascribe a greater purpose to Life." 

Sam:  "Protons must have their quarks. That no one can deny."

Charles Darwin:  "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

Walter Kornbluth:   "She's a fish!"