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Thomas Dewar:

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.

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Harry Truman:

I don’t believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

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Rolf-Dieter Heuer:

If you don’t invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

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Havelock Ellis:

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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Albert Camus:

When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though the war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

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Jane Jacobs:

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

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Chauncey Wright:

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

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Euripides:

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:

To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

If you are a mystery buff, find a way to watch Inspector Morse and its spin-off, Inspector Lewis. They are both superb.

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Kenneth Clark:

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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A. E. Housman:

Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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Vanna Bonta:

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

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William Feather:

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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Leo Rosten:

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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Gabrielle Giffords:

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying “no” to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

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John Thaw in the voice of Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately in the voice of Sergeant Lewis:

Morse: Suppose you thought you found the secret of life itself?

Lewis: There isn’t one, is there?

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Arthur Helps:

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

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Judith Tarr:

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

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Pearl Bailey:

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.

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Caratacus:

If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcomes enslavement?

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