If all the secrets of adulthood, including sex, illness and death, are opened to children; cynicism, apathy or arrogance replace curiosity for them, short-circuiting education and moral development.
-- Neil Postman (The Disappearance of Childhood)
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Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
-- Aretha Franklin
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Those who have torches will pass them on to others.
-- Plato
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montague
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It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his cash flow depends on his not understanding it.
-- Paul Krugman
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
-- Grace Hopper
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The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of individual perishable creatures who themselves are not beautiful, and must be reshaped to form a template from which the beautiful is printed (forged, extracted, converted). This is the terrible law of the universe. This is the basic law; it is a fact... Absolute suffering leads to--is the means to--absolute beauty.
-- Philip K. Dick
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If one had to study all the laws, one would have no time to transgress them.
-- Goethe
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Ritual Defamation avoids engaging in any kind of debate over the truthfulness or reasonableness of what has been expressed, only condemns it. To debate opens the issue up for examination and discussion of its merits, and to consider the evidence that may support it, which is just what the ritual defamer is trying to avoid. The primary goal of a ritual defamation is censorship and repression.
-- Laird Wilcox
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
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I feel...an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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Simply add the words internet and social media [to 1984], and you're reading about 2023.
-- WP (Upon returning an overdue copy of 1984 to the library after 65 years.)
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When issues of public policy are discussed in the outward form of an argument, often the conclusions reached are predetermined by the assumptions and definitions inherent in a particular vision of social processes. Different visions, of course, have different assumptions.... To a remarkable extent, however, empirical evidence is neither sought beforehand nor consulted after a policy has been instituted. Facts may be marshaled for a position already taken, but that is very different from systematically testing opposing theories by evidence. Momentous questions are dealt with essentially as conflicts of vision.
-- Thomas Sowell
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You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.
-- Frank Wilczek
In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and values and position ought to be protected and who should have a greater influence on public affairs than others.
-- Friedrich Hayek (Why I Am Not a Conservative)
Problems have solutions, but dilemmas have horns.
-- Anonymous
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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy
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