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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin

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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi

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Given a choice between a complex, difficult-to-understand, disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems.
-- Bob Lewis (Infoworld)

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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman

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Knowledge gained through experience of plants and animals is not an inferior substitute for proper scientific knowledge; it is the real thing. Direct experience is the only way to build up an understanding that is not only intellectual but intuitive and practical, involving the senses and the heart as well as the rational mind. Scientific investigations can illuminate and enrich this direct practical knowledge, but they are no substitute for it; indeed, they depend on it themselves.
-- Rupert Sheldrake (The Rebirth of Nature)

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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana

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Don't solve other people's problems when they can solve them perfectly well themselves. or... If it's their problem, make it their problem.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain

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Reason is a biological product -- a tool whose power is inherently and substantially restricted. It has improved how we do things; it has not changed why we do things. The more fundamental "why" element is driven by instinctive self-preservation, emotional needs, and cultural attitudes. We are usually reluctant to admit the extent to which these forces govern our behavior, and accordingly we often recruit reason to explain and justify our actions.
-- Donald B. Calne (Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior)

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
-- Jacob Bronowski

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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-- Isaac Asimov

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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
-- Voltaire

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It is a myth not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and a symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman

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Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
-- Richard Feynman

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My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
-- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryShelley #Hate #Love

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A wise man... proportions his belief to the evidence.
-- David Hume

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Many engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ.
-- Nicholas Negroponte

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.
-- Flannery O'Connor

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