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Stefano Guazzo:

A king without instruction is like a donkey crowned.

Q. E. D.

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William of Ockham:

Logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known.

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Ouida:

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

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Dwight Morrow:

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

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I. J. Good:

There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt:

Freedom and justice are complementary concepts; freedom is no more feasible without justice than justice is possible without freedom.

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Calvin Coolidge:

The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

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Bernard Crick:

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

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Bertrand Russell:

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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John Dewey:

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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Peter Abelard:

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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Alfred the Great:

Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.

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Bruce Willis:

You can’t undo the past but you can certainly not repeat it.

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John Danforth:

The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God’s position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.

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Kate Crawford:

We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it’s been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.

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Barkha Dutt:

Wherever I go, people complain about what they see on television. Yet, if you are lapping this up because it’s random entertainment or from morbid fascination, you are enablers.

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Malcolm X:

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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Pericles:

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

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Horace:

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

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W. C. Fields:

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

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