Getting What You Want
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
— Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
Every crowd has a silver lining.
— Phineas Taylor Barnum
A man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best evidence for the existence of intelligent life in the universe lies in the fact that they have steadfastly refused to contact us.
— Richard Boyd
I saw this quote as a letter-to-the-editor in one of the San Francisco Bay Area papers several years ago. I love the twisted logic and the inherent presumptions that it contains. Some attempts at logical arguments for the existence of God share these logical fallacies.