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Yves Behar:

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

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Martin Rees:

When I discover I’m wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?

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Carl Sagan:

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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Byron Katie:

Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark . . . .

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Emile Durkheim:

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

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Jack Palance:

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

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T. S. Eliot:

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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Howard Zinn:

If those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television — can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

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Olympia Snowe:

My concept of government’s role in people’s lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

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Peter Nivio Zarlenga:

No authority is higher than reality.

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Claire Booth Luce:

Technological man can’t believe in anything that can’t be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

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Miguel de Cervantes:

There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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Max Eastman:

I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

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Eugene Ionesco:

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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Terry Eagleton:

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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Leo Tolstoy:

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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Longinus:

Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish.

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Donald Grant Mitchell:

I find no man so disagreeable to meet with, as one who knows everything.

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Joyce Carol Oates:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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Bella Abzug:

. . . Congress has got to begin to reflect in its composition the great diversity of this country.

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