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Robert Quillen:

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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John Oliver:

In science, you don’t just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That’s religion! You’re thinking of religion.

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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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John Holt:

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.

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Wilbur Wright:

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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Rex Stout:

Efforts to censor what people read are not justified under the American system.

Quoted from a speech attended by John Jakes in Jakes’s introduction
to Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. vii.

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Branch Rickey:

Luck is the residue of design.

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Peter Ustinov:

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

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Alfred Bester:

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

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George F. Kennan:

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

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Montewquieu:

The less men think, the more they talk.

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Louis D. Brandeis:

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

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Harpo Marx:

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist – I played by ear.

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Henry Miller:

We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

The cause of war is preparation for war.

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Fergus Hume:

The illusions of youth are mostly due to the want of experience.

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Steve Hofstetter:

There is no center. There’s the left; there’s the right; and there’s apathy.

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Empedocles:

What needs [saying] is worth saying twice.

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Smedley Butler;

War is a racket. It always has been… A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

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Franklin Pierce Adams:

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

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