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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
-- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973 Paper)

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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

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Tying health insurance to employment is class warfare.
-- Public Citizen (@public_citizen)

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If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort

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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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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle

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I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
-- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-- Peter Ustinov

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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-- W. H. Auden

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Relativism greases the skids for illiberalism.
-- Bret Stephens (NYTimes JULY 20, 2017)

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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
-- George Herbert

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