Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
-- Albert Camus
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Discussions of curriculum are often limited to who "covers" what, an approach more suited to barn painting than to education.
-- Timothy Goldsmith (Science 2002)
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I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
-- Javier Bardem
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
-- Heywood Hale Broun
People think "give poor people money" is an absurd solution to poverty but for some reason think "give rich people money" works better, despite the notion being absurd and decades of evidence to the contrary.
-- Adam Serwer (@adamserwer)
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The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
-- Susan Polis Schutz
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain (Following the Equator)
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
-- Lao Tzu
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Given a choice between a complex, difficult-to-understand, disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems.
-- Bob Lewis (Infoworld)
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An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
-- Werner Heisenberg
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
Nobody seems to realize that we import twice or three times as many jobs as we export. We are exporting low-skill, low-paying jobs but are importing high-skill, high-paying jobs. Consequently, the industries that are moving jobs out of the U.S. are the most backward industries. The U.S. remains the cheapest place in the world to produce for many of the more advanced industries. ...employee benefits are much cheaper than in Europe, and American workers are more flexible.
-- Peter Drucker
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
-- William Osler
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If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek)
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The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
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If we horde and hide what we love, we can still lose it. Only then, we're alone in the loss
-- Seth Radley (The Broccoli Tree)
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi
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Choose two: Good, Fast, Cheap.
-- Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm
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It's funny that people are concerned about being exposed to a naked body on the Internet, but they're not concerned about the ramifications of being exposed to this onslaught of commercialism from an early age and its impact on the value systems of children.
-- Karen G. Schneider (librarian)
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.
-- Will Rogers
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
-- Victor Hugo
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
-- James Ling
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
-- Michel de Montaigne
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I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge'; the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
-- Isaac Asimov
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein
Prosthetic Knowledge, n. Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology
-- prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain
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"Hacking" comprises anything that requires creativity and resourcefulness to accomplish a task....It's the lifeblood of progress.
-- Ron Poulton
Too much [central] control freezes the system into limited configurations; too little causes it to wander aimlessly. Only systems that hover on the border between order and chaos exhibit the needed general stability and capacity to explore the universe of possible solutions to challenges.
-- Stuart A. Kauffman (Sciam (Nov 2006))
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it!
-- Yogi Berra
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
-- Haruki Murakami
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
-- Robert Browning
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
-- Larry Wall
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they really are.
-- Samuel Johnson (1775)
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
-- James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
-- Marquis de la Grange
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Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
-- H. L. Mencken
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Trump's Law of Opposites: Take whatever Donald Trump or his proxies say, invert it, and you will be closer to the truth.
-- Richard Rathe (June 2018)