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The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.: Martin Luther King, jr., The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
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Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress...: V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31
History is too serious to be left to historians.: Ian Macleod, in The Observer (July 16, 1961)
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons
Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989
Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.: Judith Hayes
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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930
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