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- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- There are two ways to slide easily though life: To believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- 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
- Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order and morals.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
- Grace Williams
- Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix Cohen
- 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
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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