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- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
- Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- John Dykes
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazzlitt
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
- Leonard I. Sweet
- The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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