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Plutarch:

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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John Naisbitt:

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

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Anthony Eden:

Corruption never has been compulsory.

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Anna Garlin Spencer:

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!

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Aaron Sorkin:

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don’t think everyone has earned the microphone. And that’s what the Internet has done.

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Robert J. Sawyer:

. . . clearheaded, unflinching, rational thinking is the only effective way to deal with reality.

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Steve M. reports that Donald Trump wants to catapult the Nave into the past.

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Horace:

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

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Henry David Thoreau:

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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Amelia Earhart:

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

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Isaac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of 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.

H/T PoliticalProf.

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H. G. Wells:

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

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Alexander Hamilton:

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

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Adam Smith:

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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Pierre Charron:

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

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Donald James:

At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

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Nick Turse:

You don’t need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don’t need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

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Clarence Darrow:

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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Blase J. Cupich:

For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.

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