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Sean M. Carroll:

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we’ve taken this incredibly interesting subject – how the universe works – and made it boring.

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Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby:

I finally realized that the future isn’t really on its way. In truth, it’s already arrived.

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Paul Newman:

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

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James Craig, in the voice of Nels Halverson:

The only thing that can make a land evil is the people who inhabit it.

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Kerry Greenwood:

Nothing like a really improbable quest to occupy a holiday. It prepared one for later life quests, like Justice and Truth, equally unattainable.

Greenwood, Kerry, Dead Man’s Chest (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2010) p. 64.

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Scott Joplin:

Boy, when I’m dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

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Ernie Pyle:

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

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Hans Rosling:

There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.

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Aeschylus:

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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Harriet Tubman:

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

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Cory Doctorow:

Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

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Van Wyck Brooks:

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

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David Hume:

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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Dwight MacDonald:

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion.

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John Henry Newman:

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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Douglas Adams:

A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”

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Tacitus:

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

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Al Franken:

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

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Hypatia:

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.

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