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Antoine Lavoisier:

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

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February 5, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Max Berry:

It’s much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can’t spot the difference.

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February 4, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Benchley:

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

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February 3, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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February 2, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Oscar Wilde:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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February 1, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Afterthought:

If you have not read his Democracy in America, do so. In my opinion, the only one person understood America better than de Tocqueville, and that was Mark Twain.

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January 31, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Maulana Karenga:

One of the greatest powers in the world is the ability to define reality and cause others to accept it. This power is even increased although negatively when one can define reality and make others accept it even when it is to their disadvantage.

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January 30, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Uri Avnery:

The only people who have an official confirmation that they are sane are those who have been released from psychiatric hospitals.

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January 29, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Henry S. Haskins:

Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.

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January 28, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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William Anton, in the voice of Assistant D.A. George Donovan:

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.

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January 27, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Immanuel Kant:

The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.

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January 26, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Will Durant:

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

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January 25, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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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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January 24, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kerry Greenwood:

The poor steal from the rich because they envy them. The rich steal from the poor because they despise them.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Spotted Dog (Naperville, IL, Poisoned Pen Press, 2019) p. 387.

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January 23, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jacques Barzun:

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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January 22, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jean-Paul Sartre:

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

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January 21, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Buzz Burbank:

Wherever ignorance leaves a vacuum, misinformation floods in.

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January 20, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Russell Brand:

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

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January 19, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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B. F. Skinner:

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

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January 18, 2024 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Elie Wiesel:

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.

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