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"I'm not interested in revenge, only in removing stupid crap." --User:Tony Sidaway 05:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC) - like it.





Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of scep­tics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion pro­vided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. - Bertrand Russell (1952)
A Barnstar!
Football (soccer) barnstar

For exemplary work on football articles. Well done. Guinnog 10:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)