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- An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community.
- Edward Thorndike
- The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- In his private heart no man respects himself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
- Otto Kleppner
- Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
- Bill Vaughan
- The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is... the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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