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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.: Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
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
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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
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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