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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.: Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.: Joe Orton (1933 - 1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)

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