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- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
- Minna Thomas Antrim
- The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
- Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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