nO fOOling arOund...

You can fool all the people some of the time;
You can even fool some of the people all the time:
but you can never fool all the people all the time!
(Sourced-out; not mine)

qUANTUM mECHANICS

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties
— Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.

decide upon granting opportunity(ies?)

It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.

– Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (London: Allen & Unwin, 1951, p. 108) (I picked this from Wikipedia on Feb. 3, 2008)

The world was created 5 minutes ago, agree?

"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that 'remembered' a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."

– Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind, 1921, pp. 159–60; cf. Philosophy, Norton, 1927, pp 7. (I picked this from Wikipedia on Feb. 3, 2008)

on liberty and equality...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost
- Aristotle

(BTW, equality, at best, is relative, so don't expect it too often. It's a cruel world out there..more cruel in here..:-)

educated mind...

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle