There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
-- Will Rogers
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
-- Samuel Johnson
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
-- Richard Feynman
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Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
-- Umberto Eco
By producing human beings the universe has woken up and turned to contemplate itself.
-- Richard Rathe
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We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (yyyy), “Of Pedantry[Du pedantisme] (1572-1578), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]
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Poverty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
-- Anonymous
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We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface.
-- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)
Why does it seem like every organization that uses the word "truth" in their name is almost sure to be its enemy?
-- J. T. Eberhard (patheos.com)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
-- Eric Ambler
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The incompetence of miscreants is the salvation of mankind.
-- Will Saletan
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Leaders succeed only when they embody and express, for better or worse, values rooted in the social character of group, class, or nation.
-- Michael Maccoby
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-- Francis Bacon
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There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
-- Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
-- Adam Smith
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The more we do, the more we can do.
-- William Hazlitt
